Correction for partial volume effects in PET: Principle and validation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 904-911

  Rousset, Olivier G ^a   Ma, Yilong ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correction; Partial volume effects; PET; Regions of interest; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; FLUORINE 18;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031955835     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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