An overview of PET quality assurance procedures: part 1

P Keim - Journal of nuclear medicine technology, 1994 - Soc Nuclear Med
Objective: In order to ensure reliable image creation from data provided by a PET system, a
comprehensive quality assurance program should be adopted. Methods: Minimum …

An Overview of PET Quality Assurance Procedures: Part II: Understanding the Results

P Keim - Journal of nuclear medicine technology, 1994 - Soc Nuclear Med
Objective: Computer-generated PET quality assurance data are only useful if they are fully
understood by the technologist who should be able to rely on the scanner's performance …

Introduction to PET instrumentation

TG Turkington - Journal of nuclear medicine technology, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to introduce technologists to the basic principles of
PET imaging and to the instrumentation used to acquire PET data. PET imaging is currently …

An easy‐to‐use phantom and protocol for weekly PET quality assessment: A multicenter study

M Vermandel, L Fin, S Hapdey, A Bol… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The authors have developed a simple phantom and dedicated software for the quality
assessment of positron emission tomography (PET) scanners. The phantom is a …

A feasibility study of a prototype PET insert device to convert a general-purpose animal PET scanner to higher resolution

H Wu, D Pal, JA O'Sullivan, YC Tai - Journal of nuclear medicine, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
We developed a prototype system to evaluate the feasibility of using a PET insert device to
achieve higher resolution from a general-purpose animal PET scanner. Methods: The …

Image quality evaluation of a small animal PET scanner

RMG Gontijo, AV Ferreira… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2019 - repositorio.ufmg.br
Performance testing of small animal PET scanners is very important to ensure the high
performance required for this particular type of PET scanner. In this sense, National …

PET Calibration, Acceptance Testing, and Quality Control

M Dahlbom - Basic Science of PET Imaging, 2017 - Springer
PET/CT is a routinely performed diagnostic imaging procedure. To ensure that the system is
performing properly and produces images of best possible quality and quantitative accuracy …

Micro insert: A prototype full-ring PET device for improving the image resolution of a small-animal PET scanner

H Wu, D Pal, TY Song, JA O'Sullivan… - Journal of nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
A full-ring PET insert device should be able to enhance the image resolution of existing
small-animal PET scanners. Methods: The device consists of 18 high-resolution PET …

An inter-laboratory comparison study of image quality of PET scanners using the NEMA NU 2-2001 procedure for assessment of image quality

H Bergmann, G Dobrozemsky, G Minear… - Physics in Medicine …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
An inter-laboratory comparison study was conducted to assess the image quality of PET
scanners in Austria. The survey included both dedicated PET scanners (D-PET, n= 8) and …

Performance assessment of a preclinical PET scanner with pinhole collimation by comparison to a coincidence-based small-animal PET scanner

MD Walker, MC Goorden, K Dinelle… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET imaging of rodents is increasingly used in preclinical research, but its utility is limited by
spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of the images. A recently developed preclinical …