NEMA & customised phantoms

NEMA & customised phantoms

NEMA IEC Body Phantom Set™

Model PET/IEC-BODY/P

Main Features:
  • The NEMA IEC Body Phantom Set™ consists of a body phantom, a lung insert and an insert with six spheres with various sizes
  • It is designed in accordance with the recommendations by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and modified by the National Electrical manufacturers Association (NEMA)
  • It is recommended for use in the evaluation of reconstructed image quality in whole body PET imaging
Main Applications:
  • Simulation of whole-body imaging especially using PET and camera-based coincidence imaging techniques
  • Evaluation of reconstructed image quality in wholebody PET and camera-based coincidence imaging
  • Determination of the coincidence count rate characteristics in brain and cardiac imaging
  • Evaluation of the relationship between true coincidence count rate and radioactivity
  • Determination of the address errors caused by address pile up
  • Evaluation of the count loss correction scheme
  • Research
Specifications:

Interior length of phantom: 180 mm

Fillable spheres (6) inner diameter: 10 mm, 13 mm,

17 mm, 22 mm, 28 mm, and 37 mm.

Distance from sphere plane to inside wall: 70 mm

Volume of empty cylinder: 9.7 liters

Cylindrical insert dimension:

Outside diameter: 51 mm

Length: 180 mm