Reduction of attenuation correction artifacts in PET-CT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1895-1899

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Stroobants, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION SINOGRAMS; ATTENUATION MAPS; INTRAVENOUS CONTRAST AGENTS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846631479     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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