Physical Performance of the new hybrid PETCT Discovery-690

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5394-5411

  Bettinardi, V ^a,b   Presotto, L ^a,c   Rapisarda, E ^a,b,c   Picchio, M ^a,b   Gianolli, L ^a   Gilardi, M C ^a,b,c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discovery 690; NEMA NU 2 2007 performance; PETCT; PSF; TOF

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

DISCOVERY-690; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LUTETIUM YTTRIUM ORTHOSILICATE; MAXIMUM ABSOLUTE ERROR; NEMA NU-2-2007 PERFORMANCE; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; PETCT; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 80053578484     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3635220     Document Type: Article

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