Effects of attenuation on tumor detection in PET oncology

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Bai, C ^a   Kinahan, P E ^a   Brasse, D ^a   Comtat, C ^b   Townsend, D W ^a   Meltzer, C C ^a   Villemagne, V ^a   Charron, M ^a   Defrise, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; SINOGRAMS; TUMOR DETECTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034593808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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