Small animal PET: Aspects of performance assessment

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1545-1555

  Weber, Simone ^a   Bauer, Andreas ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ENERGY; EXPERIMENT; HALF LIFE TIME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 9944227794     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-004-1683-x     Document Type: Review

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