Quantitative evaluation of 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose uptake in hepatic metastases with combined PET-CT: Iterative reconstruction with CT attenuation correction versus filtered back projection with 68Germanium attenuation correction

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 399-409

  Chin, Bennett B ^a   Patel, Pavni V ^b   Nakamoto, Yuji ^b   Cohade, Christian ^b   Osman, Medhat ^b   Marshall, Laura T ^b   Wahl, Richard L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FDG; Liver metastases; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM 68; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC);

EID: 0036880517     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1536-1632(02)00085-9     Document Type: Article

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