CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: Ensuring Quantitative Accuracy in PET

miércoles, 22 de abril de 2020

Ensuring Quantitative Accuracy in PET

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Ensuring Quantitative Accuracy in PET

Image quality is only one aspect of functional imaging with PET and SPECT. The ability to reproducibly extract quantitative information from our images is critical to research. This webinar will interest anyone working with pre-clinical PET and SPECT in industry and academia, including those with limited knowledge of the techniques. Post-grad students, technicians and principal investigators wanting to understand more about the techniques may find the webinar particularly useful.

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