Reconstruction of rapidly acquired Germanium-68 transmission scans for cardiac PET attenuation correction

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 706-714

  Hsu, Bai Ling ^a,b   Case, James A ^a,b   Moser, Kevin W ^a,b   Bateman, Timothy M ^a,b,c   Cullom, S James ^a,b  

^a Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies LLC   (United States)

^b SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Cardiovascular Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac positron emission tomography; germanium 68; ordered subsets expectation maximization with Bayesian prior; rubidium 82; transmission reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; FLUORINE 18; GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM 68; RADIOISOTOPE; RUBIDIUM 82; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BAYES THEOREM; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; STRESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; GERMANIUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548491814     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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