Extraction of arterial input function for measurement of brain perfusion index with 99mTc compounds using fuzzy clustering

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 299-303

  Murase, Kenya ^a,b   Nagayoshi, Makoto ^a   Uenishi, Yusuke ^a   Kawamata, Minoru ^a   Yamazaki, Youichi ^a   Takasawa, Masashi ^a   Oku, Naohiko ^a   Hatazawa, Jun ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc HMPAO; Arterial input function; Brain perfusion index; Cerebral blood flow; Fuzzy c means clustering; Region of interest

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SOLID STATE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOISOTOPE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME;

EID: 1642286382     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200403000-00014     Document Type: Article

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