Performance evaluation of the small-animal nanoscan PET/MRI system

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1825-1832

  Nagy, Kálmán ^a   Tóth, Miklós ^a   Major, Péter ^b   Patay, Gergely ^b   Egri, Gyozo ^b   Häggkvist, Jenny ^a   Varrone, Andrea ^a   Farde, Lars ^a   Halldin, Christer ^a   Gulyás, Balázs ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Mediso Medical Imaging Systems Ltd   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Multimodality imaging; Performance evaluation; PET MR imaging; Preclinical PET; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ISOREMOXIPRIDE C 11; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL IMAGING SYSTEM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; MOUSE; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PET/MR IMAGING; PRECLINICAL PET; SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PET/MR IMAGING; PRECLINICAL PET; SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84891702796     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.112.119065     Document Type: Article

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