Cause and magnitude of the error induced by oral CT contrast agent in CT-based attenuation correction of PET emission studies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 732-738

  Dizendorf, Elena ^a   Hany, Thomas F ^a   Buck, Alfred ^a   Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a   Burger, Cyrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction artifact; CT based PET attenuation correction; Oral CT contrast agent; PET attenuation coefficient; PET CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; PATIENT CODING; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0037945457     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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