A custom-built PET phantom design for quantitative imaging of printed distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Markiewicz, P J ^a   Angelis, G I ^a   Kotasidis, F ^a   Green, M ^a   Lionheart, W R ^a   Reader, A J ^b   Matthews, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN IMAGES; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION RESEARCH TOMOGRAPH; IMAGING PLATE; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PET SCANNER; PHYSICAL STATE; PLANAR SOURCES; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PRINTING MODES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RADIOACTIVE CONCENTRATION; RADIOACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSAXIAL; VOXEL INTENSITIES;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINTING; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOLOGY;

DESIGN;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

BRAIN; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80054809178     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/21/N01     Document Type: Article

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