Clinical evaluation of processing techniques for attenuation correction with 137Cs in whole-body PET imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1257-1263

  Bénard, François ^a   Smith, Robin J ^a   Hustinx, Roland ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; PET; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DENSITY GRADIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 11844296599     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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