Improved attenuation correction via appropriate selection of respiratory-correlated PET data

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-98

  Daouk, Joël ^a   Fin, Loïc ^a   Bailly, Pascal ^a   Meyer, Marc Etienne ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Breath hold CT; PET CT; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDS;

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BREATH-HOLD; BREATH-HOLD CT; LIST-MODE; PET DATA; PET IMAGING; PET/CT; PHANTOM STUDIES; RESPIRATORY GATING; SIGNAL RECORDINGS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; LUNG NODULE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ATTENUATION; BOTTLES; CORRECTIONS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; SPECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 49949094416     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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