Impact of time-of-flight PET on whole-body oncologic studies: A human observer lesion detection and localization study

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 712-719

  Surti, Suleman ^a   Scheuermann, Joshua ^a   El Fakhri, Georges ^b   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Lim, Ruth ^b   Abi Hatem, Nathalie ^b   Moussallem, Elie ^b   Benard, Francois ^c   Mankoff, David ^d   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human observers; Lesion detection; LROC; Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BODY SIZE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 79955787544     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.086678     Document Type: Article

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