PET/CT Performance Evaluation Techniques and Quality Assurance

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Daily QA. NEMA NU 2-2007. PET Performance Standard. National Electrical Manufacturers. Association. NEMA Standards Publication NU 2-2007: Performance ...
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PET/CT Performance Evaluation Techniques and Quality Assurance

Performance Evaluation Techniques – NEMA NU 2‐ NEMA NU 2‐2007 Performance Standards

Quality Assurance Brad Kemp, PhD Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic

– System Corrections • Quantitative Analysis of Blank Scans

NEMA NU 2-2007 PET Performance Standard

National Electrical Manufacturers  Association.  NEMA Standards Publication NU 2‐ NEMA Standards Publication NU 2‐2007:  Performance Measurements of Positron Emission  Tomographs

• Quantitative PET

– Daily QA

http://www.nema.org/stds/nu2.cfm

WE-SAMS-L100J-2

NEMA NU 2-2007 and Lutetium-176 NU 2‐ NU 2‐2007 addresses intrinsic radioactivity in detectors • LSO (and LYSO) is inherently radioactive • Background radiation gives rise to Randoms, some Trues • Implications for NEMA:  cannot obtain Randoms:Trues cannot obtain Randoms:Trues ratio