Experimental evaluation of the bilinear transformation used in the CT-based attenuation correction for small animal PET imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3747-3750

  Jianhua, Yu ^b   Seidel, Jurgen ^a,b   Pomper, Martin ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; GERMANIUM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPHERES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; ARTIFICIAL TISSUES; ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; ATTENUATION MAPS; BILINEAR APPROACHES; BILINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; CALIBRATION PHANTOMS; CONTRAST AGENTS; CT IMAGES; CT SCANS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; IMAGE INTENSITIES; INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS; IODINATED CONTRAST AGENTS; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MAXIMUM RATIOS; MOUSE HEARTS; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; RAT TISSUES; SMALL ANIMALS; TRANSMISSION SCANS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349113187     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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