Update on time-of-flight PET imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 98-105

  Surti, Suleman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lesion detection; Lesion uptake; Scan time; Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTRAST RECOVERY COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONCOLOGY; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920382243     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.114.145029     Document Type: Article

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