90Y -PET imaging: Exploring limitations and accuracy under conditions of low counts and high random fraction

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4295-4309

  Carlier, Thomas ^a,b   Willowson, Kathy P ^c   Fourkal, Eugene ^d   Bailey, Dale L ^e,f   Doss, Mohan ^g   Conti, Maurizio ^h  

^a NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Team 12   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

90Y PET; quantification; radioembolization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; SCANNING;

90Y -POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); PHANTOMS; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RADIOEMBOLIZATION; RANDOM FRACTION; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; TIME-OF FLIGHT; TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

YTTRIUM 90; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; WATER; YTTRIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PATIENT CODING; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHOTON; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; WATER; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84935032406     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4922685     Document Type: Article

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