A quantitative evaluation of multiple biokinetic models using an assembled water phantom: A feasibility study.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the feasibility of quantitatively evaluating multiple biokinetic models and established the validity of the different compartment models using an assembled water phantom. Most commercialized phantoms are made to survey the imaging system since this is essential to increase the diagnostic accuracy for quality assurance. In contrast, few customized phantoms are specifically made to represent multi-compartment biokinetic models. This is because the complicated calculations as defined to solve the biokinetic models and the time-consuming verifications of the obtained solutions are impeded greatly the progress over the past decade. Nevertheless, in this work, five biokinetic models were separately defined by five groups of simultaneous differential equations to obtain the ti

SUBMITTER: Yeh DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5739403 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature