Effect of scan duration on lesion detectability in PET oncology imaging

2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1432-1435

  Cheng, Phillip M ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^a   Comtat, Claude ^b   Kim, Jae Seung ^a   Lartizien, Carole ^c   Lewellen, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^c ANIMAGE CERMEP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOM; CONTRAST RATIO; LESIONS; POISSON NOISE;

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GLUCOSE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POLYNOMIALS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 17144377164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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