Using the NEMA NU 4 PET image quality phantom in multipinhole small-animal SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1646-1653

  Harteveld, Anita A ^a,b   Meeuwis, Antoi P W ^a   Disselhorst, Jonathan A ^a   Slump, Cornelis H ^b   Oyen, Wim J G ^a   Boerman, Otto C ^a   Visser, Eric P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image quality; Multi pinhole; NEMA; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal

Indexed keywords

OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD AIR; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUSE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; DIPHOSPHONATES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 80053511557     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.087114     Document Type: Article

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