A multivendor phantom study comparing the image quality produced from three state-of-the-art SPECT-CT systems

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 663-670

  Hughes, Tyler ^a   Celler, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

astonish; evolution; Flash3D; image quality; multicenter; phantom; quantitative; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SPINE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84860837888     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328351d549     Document Type: Article

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