title: Design and construction of a quality control phantom for SPECT and PET imaging.
abstract: In this article, the authors present a method for quickly and easily constructing test phantoms for PET and SPECT quality assurance. As a demonstration, they constructed a complex prototype test phantom, showing the strengths of the construction method. Images taken using a PET/CT and a SPECT scanner are presented, along with a qualitative evaluation of PET/CT using the test phantom. The construction technique provides a quick, easy, and cost effective means of constructing a phantom for use in nuclear medicine imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada. dylan.hunt@moffitt.org
authors.forename: Dylan Christopher
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Easton
authors.forename: Curtis B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Caldwell
mesh_terms: D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D016062:Porosity; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*