A phantom for quantitation of partial volume effects in ECT

Conference · Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6358425

Mullani, N A

A special phantom has been designed, built and tested to measure the quantitative recovery of ECT data from the heart as a function of the size of the object and the angulation of a 1 cm thick simulated myocardium inclined with respect to the image plane. The phantom consists of five objects of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5. 2.0, and 3.0 cm width and six 1 cm thick strips inclined at 0, 30, 45, 60, 90, and -90 degrees with respect to the axial direction. Recovery coefficients for different object sizes and simulated 1 cm thick myocardium inclined at different angles can be obtained from a single scan. Adequacy of axial sampling can be observed visually by creating the long axis view of the phantom.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX (US)
• OSTI ID: 6358425
• Report Number(s): CONF-881103-; TRN: 89-010787
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States), Vol. 36:1; Conference: IEEE nuclear science symposium, Orlando, FL, USA, 9 Nov 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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