Feasibility of automated partial-volume correction of SUVs in current PET/CT scanners: Can manufacturers provide integrated, ready-to-use software?

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1031-1032

  Basu, Sandip ^a,b   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44849121668     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.050401     Document Type: Letter

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