Attenuation correction of PET activation studies in the presence of task-related motion

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1501-1509

  Van Den Heuvel, Odile A ^a   Boellaard, Ronald ^a   Veltman, Dick J ^a   Mesina, Catalina ^a   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Mismatch transmission emission scan; Motion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0042926484     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00216-7     Document Type: Article

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