Strategies for attenuation compensation in neurological PET studies

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 518-541

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Montandon, Marie Louise ^a   Meikle, Steve ^b,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attenuation compensation; Attenuation map; Brain imaging; Positron Emission Tomography (PET); Quantification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33751552345     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.10.002     Document Type: Review

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