NEMA NU 4-2008 comparison of preclinical PET imaging systems

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1300-1309

  Goertzen, Andrew L ^a   Bao, Qinan ^b   Bergeron, Mélanie ^c   Blankemeyer, Eric ^d   Blinder, Stephan ^e   Cañadas, Mario ^f   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^b   Dinelle, Katherine ^e   Elhami, Esmat ^a,g   Jans, Hans Sonke ^h   Lage, Eduardo ⁱ   Lecomte, Roger ^c   Sossi, Vesna ^e   Surti, Suleman ^d   Tai, Yuan Chuan ^j   Vaquero, Juan José ^k   Vicente, Esther ^l   Williams, Darin A ^b   Laforest, Richard ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f CIEMAT   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁱ HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^j WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^l INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

NEMA NU 4 2008; PET performance evaluation; Positron emission tomography (PET); Preclinical PET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIETIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864762838     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.099382     Document Type: Article

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