NEMA NU 4-2008 performance measurements of two commercial small-animal PET scanners: ClearPET and rPET-1

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 58-65

  Cañadas, Mario ^a   Embid, Miguel ^a   Lage, Eduardo ^b   Desco, Manuel ^b,c   Vaquero, Juan José ^c   Pérez, José Manuel ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Image quality assessment; performance evaluation; PET; small animal imagers

Indexed keywords

1-SYSTEMS; ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; CLEARPET; COUNTING RATES; DETECTOR MODULE; FIELD OF VIEWS; GEOMETRICAL DIFFERENCES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; MADRID , SPAIN; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PET; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SMALL VARIATIONS; SMALL-ANIMAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSAXIAL; TRANSVERSE AXIS;

ANIMALS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79951682532     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2072935     Document Type: Article

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