Fully automated partial volume correction in PET based on a wavelet approach without the use of anatomical information

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2812-2816

  Boussion, N ^b   Hatt, M ^a,b   Reilhac, A ^c   Visvikis, D ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVOLUTION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL IMAGES; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CORRECTION METHODS; CROSS-CONTAMINATION; CT IMAGING; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION INFORMATION; NOISE PROPAGATION; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PARTIAL VOLUME CORRECTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS; PET IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MOTION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON EMISSION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPATIAL CORRELATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); THRESHOLDING; WAVELET DOMAINS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 48149099271     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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