Acquisition setting optimization and quantitative imaging for 124I studies with the Inveon microPET-CT system

EJNMMI Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Anizan, Nadège ^a   Carlier, Thomas ^a   Hindorf, Cecilia ^a,b   Barbet, Jacques ^a   Bardiès, Manuel ^c  

^a Team 12   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Iodine 124; PET CT; Quantitative imaging; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; IODINE 124;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE QUALITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84865617704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2191219X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2191-219X-2-7     Document Type: Article

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