Lesion-to-background ratio in nonattenuation-corrected whole-body FDG pet images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1219-1223

  Imran, Muhammad Babar ^a   Kubota, Kazuo ^a   Yamada, Susumu ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a   Yamada, Kenji ^a   Fujiwara, Takehiko ^a   Itoh, Masatoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose; PET; Tumor imaging; Whole body scan

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOTOPE LABELING; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031866015     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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