Impact of Acquisition Geometry and Patient Habitus on Lesion Detectability in Whole-Body FDG-PET: A Channelized Hotelling Observer Study

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1402-1405

  El Fakhri, G ^a   Holdsworth, C ^a   Badawi, R D ^a   Santos, P A ^a   Moore, S C ^a   Van den Abbeele, A D ^a   Kijewski, M F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVER (CHO);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142179055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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