Noise Equivalent Count Rate

Known as: NEC 
An adjusted PET scanner's count rate that results from a specified activity concentration within.(Dr. Joseph A. Thie)
National Institutes of Health

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2012
2012
Reliability of predicting image signal-to-noise ratio using noise equivalent count rate in PET imaging.
PURPOSE Several investigators have shown that noise equivalent count rate (NECR) is linearly proportional to the square of image… (More)
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2011
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2011
Physical and clinical performance of the mCT time-of-flight PET/CT scanner.
Time-of-flight (TOF) measurement capability promises to improve PET image quality. We characterized the physical and clinical PET… (More)
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
Design and performance evaluation of a whole-body Ingenuity TF PET-MRI system.
The Ingenuity TF PET-MRI is a newly released whole-body hybrid PET-MR imaging system with a Philips time-of-flight GEMINI TF PET… (More)
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
Physical performance of the new hybrid PET∕CT Discovery-690.
PURPOSE The aim of this work was the assessment of the physical performance of the new hybrid PET∕CT system: Discovery-690… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
An exclusively human milk-based diet is associated with a lower rate of necrotizing enterocolitis than a diet of human milk and bovine milk-based products.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health benefits of an exclusively human milk-based diet compared with a diet of both human milk and… (More)
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
Performance of the new generation of whole-body PET/CT scanners: Discovery STE and Discovery VCT
The new GE Discovery STE and Discovery VCT respectively combine 16-slice and 64-slice CT with PET. The PET scanner has a new BGO… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Postoperative outcomes of extremely low birth-weight infants with necrotizing enterocolitis or isolated intestinal perforation: a prospective cohort study by the NICHD Neonatal Research Network.
OBJECTIVE Purposes of this study were: 1) to compare mortality and postoperative morbidities (intra-abdominal abscess, wound… (More)
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2004
2004
Improvement of noise equivalent count rate using Compton kinematics in a Compton PET
The timing performance of a Compton PET device for very high resolution small animal imaging was investigated using Monte Carlo… (More)
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1996
Highly Cited
1996
DOES ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY MATTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZATION ?
All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided… (More)
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1976
1976
Hematologic abnormalities in severe neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
Serial determinations of the absolute granulocyte and platelet counts were performed in 40 infants with severe neonatal… (More)
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