Is the Image Quality of I-124-PET Impaired by an Automatic Correction of Prompt Gammas?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Preylowski, Veronika ^a,b   Schlögl, Susanne ^a   Schoenahl, Frédéric ^c   Jörg, Gerhard ^a   Samnick, Samuel ^a   Buck, Andreas K ^a   Lassmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c Siemens Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; GALLIUM 68; IODINE 124;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROMPT GAMMA COMPENSATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIONUCLIDE DOSE CALIBRATOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84883180389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071729     Document Type: Article

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