Beyond 18F-FDG: Characterization of PET/CT and PET/MR scanners for a comprehensive set of positron emitters of growing application-18F, 11C, 89Zr, 124I,68Ga, and 90Y

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1285-1291

  Therese Soderlund, A ^a   Chaal, Jasper ^a   Tjio, Gabriel ^a   Totman, John J ^a   Conti, Maurizio ^b   Townsend, David W ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Contrast recovery; Image quality; Positron emission tomography; Radionuclide therapy; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; FLUORINE 18; GALLIUM 68; IODINE 124; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM 90; ZIRCONIUM 89; CARBON; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; PET-CT SCANNER; PET-MRI SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 84938848805     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: 2159662X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.115.156711     Document Type: Article

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