Design, Realization and Implementation of a Novel Phantom for Quality Control of Micro-SPECT/CT and Micro-PET/CT Systems
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53337#.VL3H5CzQrzE Author(s) Hatem Besbes 1* , Radhia Besbes Krid 2 , Bassel Solaiman 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Laboratory of Biophysics and Medical Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia . 2 Department of English, Languages Institute of Gabes, Gabes University, Gabes, Tunisia . 3 Department of Imagery and Information Processing, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France . ABSTRACT The proposed phantom is designed for the quality control of micro-SPECT/CT and micro-PET/CT systems. However, it is an assembly of six patterns stored in a cylindrical box enabling to control both micro-SPECT unit in terms of uniformity, spatial linearity and spatial resolution and micro-CT unit in terms of uniformity, spatial linearity, spatial resolution, diffusion rate, low contrast detectability, Hounsfield unit linearity and slice thickn...