A hybrid attenuation correction technique to compensate for lung density in 3-d total body PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1 PART 2, 1996, Pages 323-330

  Tai, Y C ^a,b,c,d   Lin, K P ^a,b,c,d   Dahlbom, M ^a,b,c,d   Hoffman, E J ^a,b,c,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Div of Nucl Med and Biophysics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CALCULATIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE CONTOUR FINDING; EMISSION SCAN; HYBRID ATTENUATION CORRECTION TECHNIQUE; LUNG DENSITY; THORAX; TRANSMISSION SCAN;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030082269     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.485973     Document Type: Article

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