A novel iterative method for lesion delineation and volumetric quantification with FDG PET

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 485-493

  van Dalen, Jorn A ^a   Hoffmann, Aswin L ^a   Dicken, Volker ^a   Vogel, Wouter V ^a   Wiering, Bastiaan ^a   Ruers, Theo J ^b   Karssemeijer, Nico ^b   Oyen, Wim J G ^b  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lesion delineation; PET; Thresholding; Volumetric quantification

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RELATIVE THRESHOLD LEVEL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; CALIBRATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 34247574215     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328155d154     Document Type: Article

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