Three-dimensional brain phantom containing bone and grey matter structures with a realistic head contour

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-36

  Iida, Hidehiro ^a   Hori, Yuki ^a   Ishida, Kenji ^a   Imabayashi, Etsuko ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^b   Takahashi, Masaaki ^c   Maruno, Hirotaka ^d   Yamamoto, Akihide ^a   Koshino, Kazuhiro ^a   Enmi, Junichiro ^a   Iguchi, Satoshi ^a   Moriguchi, Tetsuaki ^a   Kawashima, Hidekazu ^a   Zeniya, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Nakamura Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^d TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Brain phantom quality control; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IOFETAMINE I 123;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEA; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84872683893     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-012-0655-7     Document Type: Article

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