Development of a fillable, tapered PET/CT phantom

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 651-659

  Wilson, Joshua M ^a   Lokitz, Stephen J ^a,b   Turkington, Timothy G ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biomedical Research Foundation of NW Louisiana ^*  (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

PET instrumentation; phantoms; scatter; simulation

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; BODY SIZES; CROSS SECTION; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; FIELD OF VIEWS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PET SCANNER; PHANTOMS; SCATTER; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SIMULATION; TAPER ANGLES; WALL THICKNESS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 79959373981     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2105280     Document Type: Article

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