Method for transforming CT images for attenuation correction in PET/CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 976-983

  Carney, Jonathan P J ^a,c   Townsend, David W ^a   Rappoport, Vitaliy ^b   Bendriem, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; METADATA; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TISSUE; X RAY TUBES;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; DATA RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SCALING PROCEDURES; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 33645510085     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2174132     Document Type: Article

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