Journal:
:asia oceania journal of nuclear medicine and biology
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yasuharu wakabayashi division of radiological technology, saitama prefectural cancer center, saitama, japan
kenichi kashikura graduate school of radiological technology, gunma prefectural college of health sciences, gunma, japan
yasuyuki takahashi graduate school of radiological technology, gunma prefectural college of health sciences, gunma, japan
hitoshi yabe division of health sciences, graduate school of medical sciences, kanazawa university, kanazawa, japan
akihiro ichikawa division of molecular imaging, saitama prefectural cancer center, saitama, japan
souichi yamamoto division of radiological technology, saitama prefectural cancer center, saitama, japan
objective(s): the present study was conducted to examine whether the standardized uptake value (suv) may be affected by the spatial position of a lesion in the radial direction on positron emission tomography (pet) images, obtained via two methods based on time-of-flight (tof) reconstruction and point spread function (psf). methods: a cylinder phantom with the sphere (30mm diameter), located in...
