Estimation of the minimum detectable activity of preclinical PET imaging systems with an analytical method

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6070-6083

  Bao, Qinan ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

lesion detectability; minimum detectable activity; small animal PET

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION;

ANALYTICAL EVALUATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DATA ACQUISITION PROTOCOL; LESION DETECTABILITY; MINIMUM DETECTABLE ACTIVITIES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SCINTILLATION MATERIALS; SMALL ANIMAL PET;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78149432436     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3495817     Document Type: Article

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