Realignment of emission contaminated attenuation maps with uncontaminated attenuation maps for attenuation correction in PET

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 848-854

  Buvat, Irène ^a,b   Freedman, Nanette M T ^a   Dilsizian, Vasken ^a   Bacharach, Stephen L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Emission computed tomography; Image registration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTAMINATION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGES REGISTRATION; PATIENT MOTIONS; VOXEL SIZE;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029811098     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199609000-00037     Document Type: Article

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