Quantitative 177Lu SPECT (QSPECT) imaging using a commercially available SPECT/CT system

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-66

  Beauregard, Jean Mathieu ^a,b   Hofman, Michael S ^b   Pereira, Jucilene M ^c   Eu, Peter ^b   Hicks, Rodney J ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Consultant Health Physicist ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dead time; Dosimetry; Lutetium 177; Quantitation; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM 177; OCTREOTATE LU 177; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960518170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2011.0012     Document Type: Article

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