Lesion detectability and quantification in PET/CT oncological studies by Monte Carlo simulations

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 136-142

  Castiglioni, I ^a   Rizzo, G ^a   Gilardi, M C ^a   Bettinardi, V ^a   Savi, A ^a   Fazio, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lesion detectability; Monte Carlo; PET CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GAMMA RAYS; GLUCOSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY;

LESION DETECTABILITY; MONTE CARLO; PET/CT; RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 17644371636     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.844018     Document Type: Article

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