Quantitative capabilities of four state-of-the-art SPECT-CT cameras

EJNMMI Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  Seret, Alain ^a   Nguyen, Daniel ^a   Bernard, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contrast; Iterative; Quantification; Resolution; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875306716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2191219X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2191-219X-2-45     Document Type: Article

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