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New Automated Physical Phantom for Renography

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Etelä-Savo Hospital District, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland

View larger version (73K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 1. (A) A simplified schematic presentation of the phantom. Under the kidney containers are 7 steel plates. Six of the 7 plates have been moved away from the space between the -camera detector and the left kidney container, and 2 of the 7 have been moved under the right kidney container. (B) A photograph of the phantom on a -camera, beside the control unit on a table.

View larger version (74K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 2. (A–D) The simulated 4 curves and corresponding regions of interest (white outlines drawn around the kidney areas). (E) An example of the image series of a simulation. Each image is summed over a period of 1 min 45 s. The series goes from left to right, starting at the upper left corner.