Foreign Medical Science.Section of Radiation Medicine and Nuclear Medicine · 2003 · 10 citations · 0 references
EngineeringNuclear MedicineRadiologyInstrumentationNuclear InstrumentationRadiation MeasurementActivity MeasurementComputed Tomography PhysicsPositron Emission TomographyPositron Emission Tomography PhysicsRadiation Imaging SystemsRadiation InstrumentationCount Loss CorrectionsDetector Spatial ResolutionImage Acquisition QualityPositron Emission Tomography Attenuation CorrectionPositron Emission Tomography InstrumentationRadiographic Image QualityScatter Fraction EstimationSpatial Resolution Measurement
This paper is concerning on the NEMA Standard Publication NU 2-2001 of Performance Measurements of Positron Emission Tomographs, which is the revised edition of the NEMA Standard Publication NU 2-1994. Seven primary sections are included, such as: definitions, symbols and referenced publications; general; spatial resolution; scatter fraction, count losses and randoms measurement; sensitivity; accuracy: corrections for count losses and randoms; image quality, accuracy of attenuation and scatter corrections.