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Influence of acquisition time and smoothing parameters on Ga–68 wholebody PET/CT image quality

Diale, 2020

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Diale B
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PET/CT image optimization has been extensively investigated for 18F–FDG PET imaging. Although 68Ga–tracers are already widely used in PET, optimized imaging and reconstruction are still missing. The aim of this research was to optimize image quality for …
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