Local Threshold For Segmented Attenuation Correction Of Pet Imaging Of The Thorax

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1532-1537

  Xu, M ^a   Cutler, P D ^a   Luk, W K ^b   Digby, W M ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CTI PET Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION FACTORS; LOCAL THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION; PHANTOMS; POST INJECTION TRANSMISSION SCANS; PSEUDO ANATOMIC SEGMENTATION; PYRAMID ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; SEGMENTED ATTENUATION CORRECTION; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028494377     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322944     Document Type: Article

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