Correction of partial-volume effect for PET striatal imaging: Fast implementation and study of robustness

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1715-1726

  Frouin, Vincent ^a   Comtat, Claude ^a   Reilhac, Anthonin ^b   Grégoire, Marie Claude ^c  

^a SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

3 dimensional PET; Partial volume effects; Registration; Segmentation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CORPUS STRIATUM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036898673     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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