Partnership develops PET phantom
Phantom development company Leeds Test Objects Limited has worked with medical physicists in the nuclear medicine centre at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to develop a phantom that builds on its NEMA standard phantom.
PET IQ is the company’s phantom for nuclear medicine, designed to meet the NEMA NU2 standard for image quality testing, with modifications in construction to create a more robust phantom suited to repeated use and transport between scanner sites.
Trust physicists Dr Heather Williams and Ian Armstrong developed the Manchester Extended NEMA PET phantom, which is combined with the standard PET IQ phantom to test the detectability of smaller lesions in a larger object which is more representative of the average torso.
See the full report on page 19 of the March 2015 issue of RAD Magazine.
