Optimizing PET scan protocol for small animal study: Correlation between scan duration, injected activity, target dimension, target-to-background ratio and imaging …

CC Yang - 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
2087 Objectives Increasing the injected activity or the scanning duration is usually
considered to achieve target imaging performance in an animal PET study, but may thus …
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An Investigation of PET Scan Parameters for Lesion Detection With GE VISTA Small-Animal Scanner Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Multivariate Analysis

TH Wu, JA Yu, CC Yang - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In vivo detection of animal xenograft is a major application of positron emission tomography
(PET) imaging. This study investigated the relationship among the scan time, radioactivity …
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An image quality evaluation of short acquisition on a high-sensitivity PET-CT scanner

Y Lv, Z Deng, F Wang, C Li, Y Dong - 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
749 Objectives: uMI780 PET-CT scanner recently released by United Imaging Healthcare is
a commercial product with a superb sensitivity performance of 15.8 kcps/MBq and an …
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Evaluation of PET image quality and lesion detectability using body phantoms of variable cross-sectional area

H Nishida, K Shimizu, K Matsumoto, T Yamane… - 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
1778 Objectives Image quality of the whole body FDG-PET degrades as the body size
increases, if acquired with the same injected activity per body weight and the same scanning …
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Evaluation of Scatter Fraction and Count Rate Performance of Two Small-animal PET scanners using dedicated phantoms

R Prasad, H Zaidi - 2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image quality deteriorates as the object size
increases owing to increased detection of scattered and random events. The …
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Investigating the effect of Fourier rebinning method on the quantitative capability of small animal PET with a Monte Carlo simulation study

CC Yang, JJS Lee, BMW Tsui - 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
1383 Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Fourier rebinning
(FORE) on the quantitative capability of small animal PET imaging with Monte Carlo …
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Scatter characterization and correction for simultaneous multiple small animal PET imaging

R Prasad, H Zaidi - 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
2123 Objectives The purpose of this work is, first, to characterize the magnitude and spatial
distribution of the scatter component in small-animal PET imaging when scanning single …
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Effects of scan duration and count density on the quantitative accuracy of PET images

T Chang, T Pan, G Chang, E Rohren, H Macapinlac… - 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
1664 Objectives: PET images are routinely reconstructed using iterative techniques which
are statistical and non-linear in nature. The aim of this abstract is to investigate the effects of …
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Monte Carlo simulation of a GE eXplore VISTA system for quantitative small animal PET imaging

CC Yang, J Yu, JJS Lee, BMW Tsui - Nuclear medicine …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective We aim to establish an evaluation platform for the GE eXplore VISTA small animal
positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, a dual layer phoswich system, by using Monte …
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Harmonization of preclinical and clinical PET imaging to support co-clinical imaging research

R Laforest, M Savaikar, K Shoghi - 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
1741 Introduction: Numerous recent works highlight the limited utility of established tumor
cell lines in recapitulating the heterogeneity of tumors in patients. More realistic preclinical …
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