Variations on the NEMA NU4-2008 testing procedures and effect on the performance measurement results

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3244-3246

  Elhami, Esmat ^a   Boulding, Josh ^b   Goertzen, Andrew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

AXIAL DIRECTION; CLINICAL SCANNERS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; TESTING PROCEDURE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84858674852     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6152581     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. NEMA Standards Publication NU 4 - 2008, "Performance Measurements of Small Animal Positron Emission Tomographs," National Electrical Manufacturers Association 2008
2. NEMA Standard Publications NU- 2001, "Clinical Positron Emission Tomographs," National Electrical Manufacturers Association 2001.
3. Y. C. Tai, A. Chatziioannou, S. Siegel, J. Young, D. Newport, R. N. Goble, R. E. Nutt, and S. R. Cherry. "Performance evaluation of the microPET P4: a PET system dedicated to animal imaging," Physics in Medicine and Biology vol. 46, pp: 1845-62, 2001. (Pubitemid 32677543)
4. A. L. Goertzen, et al., "NEMA NU4-2008 Comparison of Preclinical PET Systems," Paper M15-4, presented at IEEE NSS-MIC 2010.