Optimised PET reconstruction of the head and neck area: Improved diagnostic accuracy

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1276-1282

  Vogel, Wouter V ^a   Wensing, Bart M ^a   Van Dalen, Jorn A ^a   Krabbe, Paul F M ^a   Van Den Hoogen, Frank J A ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Head and neck; Image quality; PET; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27744432378     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-1849-1     Document Type: Article

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