PET/CT: Comparison of quantitative tracer uptake between germanium and CT transmission attenuation-corrected images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1137-1143

  Nakamoto, Yuji ^a   Osman, Medhat ^a   Cohade, Christian ^a   Marshall, Laura T ^a   Links, Jonathan M ^a   Kohlmyer, Steve ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a  

^a Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET; Attenuation correction; CT; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GERMANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GERMANIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036732033     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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