"The philosophy and rationale of the standards measurements and illustrative examples of the analysis and results are presented in: Daube-Witherspoon ME@ Karp JS@ Casey ME@ DiFilippo FP@ Hines H@ Muehllehner G@ Simcic V@ Stearns CW@ Adam L-E@ Kohlmyer S and Sossi V. ""PET Performance Measurements Using the NEMA NU 2-2001 Standard."" Journal of Nuclear Medicine 43@ no. 10 (2002): 1398-1409. The Coincidence Imaging Task Force has attempted to specify methods that can be performed on all currently available positron emission tomographs. These include single and multiple slice@ discrete and continuous detector@ time-of-flight instruments@ multi-planar and volume reconstruction models@ and dedicated positron emission tomographs as well as other coincidence-capable imaging systems. Wherever possible@ future developments that could be readily anticipated were taken into account. The committee has not specified methods that may be particularly appropriate for evaluating time-of-flight instruments pending further evaluation of those instruments by the clinical and scientific communities. While many PET tomographs are constructed as hybrid imaging systems such as PET-CT and PET-MR systems@ the standards committee has not specified special methods to assess hybrid imaging performance. It is expected that the PET component of a hybrid imaging system can be assessed using the methods described in this standard@ and other portions of the system can be assessed using other standards appropriate to that technology. In the event a portion of any of the PET test methods described here cannot be executed in a hybrid imaging system@ workaround methods may be used@ but those methods must be described in the test report."
NEMA NU 2-2012 history
2018NEMA NU 2-2018 Performance Measurements of Positron Emission Tomographs (PET)
2012NEMA NU 2-2012 Performance Measurements of Positron Emission Tomographs
2007NEMA NU 2-2007 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHS [Replaced: NEMA NU 1, NEMA NU 1, NEMA NU 1, NEMA NU 1, NEMA NU 1, NEMA NU 1]
2001NEMA NU 2-2001 Performance Measurements of Position Emission Tomographs Replaces NU 1:1994
1994NEMA NU 2-1994 Performance Measurements of Position Emission Tomographs