Enhanced FDG-PET tumor imaging with correlation-coefficient filtered influx-constant images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 371-374

  Zasadny, Kenneth R ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; emission computed tomography; flurodeoxyglucose; PET; tumor imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ARTIFACTS; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029892332     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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