Correction of oral contrast artifacts in CT-based attenuation correction of PET images using an automated segmentation algorithm

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1812-1823

  Ahmadian, Alireza ^a,b   Ay, Mohammad R ^a,b   Bidgoli, Javad H ^a,c   Sarkar, Saeed ^a,b   Zaidi, Habib ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Contrast medium; PET; Segmentation; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ARTIFACTS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52449126189     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0756-7     Document Type: Article

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