Contribution of time of flight and point spread function modeling to the performance characteristics of the PET/CT Biograph mCT scanner;Aportación del tiempo de vuelo y de la modelización de la respuesta a una fuente puntual a las características de funcionamiento del tomógrafo PET/TAC Biograph mCT

Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-21

  Marti Climent J M ^a   Prieto, E ^a   Dominguez Prado I ^a   Garcia Velloso M J ^a   Rodriguez Fraile M ^a   Arbizu, J ^a   Vigil, C ^a   Caicedo, C ^a   Penuelas I ^a   Richter, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biograph mCT; NEMA NU 2 2007; Performance; PET CT; Point spread function; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME OF FLIGHT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871607061     PISSN: 2253654X     EISSN: 22538070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.remn.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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