CT-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/CT Scanners in the Presence of Contrast Agent

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1443-1446

  Carney, Jonathan ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^b   Brasse, David ^a   Yap, Jeffrey T ^a   Townsend, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CTI PET Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS;

LINEAR ATTENUATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142210129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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