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Description / Abstract:
The philosophy and rationale of the standards measurements and
illustrative examples of the analysis and results are presented
in:
Daube-Witherspoon ME, Karp JS, Casey ME, DiFilippo FP, Hines H,
Muehllehner G, Simcic V, Stearns CW, Adam L-E, Kohlmyer S and Sossi
V. "PET Performance Measurements Using the NEMA NU 2-2001
Standard." Journal of Nuclear Medicine 43, no. 10 (2002):
1398-1409.
The Coincidence Imaging Task Force has attempted to specify
methods that can be performed on all currently available positron
emission tomographs. These include single and multiple slice,
discrete and continuous detector, time-of-flight instruments,
multi-planar and volume reconstruction models, and dedicated
positron emission tomographs as well as other coincidence-capable
imaging systems. Wherever possible, future developments that could
be readily anticipated were taken into account. The committee has
not specified methods that may be particularly appropriate for
evaluating time-of-flight instruments pending further evaluation of
those instruments by the clinical and scientific communities.
While many PET tomographs are constructed as hybrid imaging
systems such as PET-CT and PET-MR systems, the standards committee
has not specified special methods to assess hybrid imaging
performance. It is expected that the PET component of a hybrid
imaging system can be assessed using the methods described in this
standard, and other portions of the system can be assessed using
other standards appropriate to that technology. In the event a
portion of any of the PET test methods described here cannot be
executed in a hybrid imaging system, workaround methods may be
used, but those methods must be described in the test report.