Title :
PVA cryogel test objects for image-based quantification in nuclear medicine
Author :
Sarah-May Gould;Georgios M. Soultanidis;Paul K. Marsden;Lefteris Livieratos
Author_Institution :
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guy´s and St Thomas´ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Abstract :
The images shown prove the feasibility of our method for the production of an anatomically relevant phantom that can be used to represent a 177Lu-DOTATATE or other radiopharmaceutical distribution in patients for the purpose of investigating image quantification for applications such as dosimetry or functional volume segmentation. The images produced are similar in appearance to those acquired for real patients. The use of a range of sphere diameters mimics the range of lesion sizes that take up activity in tumours.
Keywords :
"Phantoms","Nuclear medicine","Medical treatment","Imaging phantoms","Dosimetry","Production"
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7430782
