An investigation of partial volume effect and partial volume correction in small animal positron emission tomography (PET) of the rat brain

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5219-5224

  Lehnert, Wencke ^a   Gregoire, Marie Claude ^b   Hu, Xiao ^a   Meikle, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ACTIVITY RECOVERY; ANATOMICAL REGIONS; BINDING POTENTIAL; GEOMETRIC TRANSFER MATRIXES; INVARIANT POINTS; MICROPET; MONTE CARLO; ON DYNAMICS; PARTIAL VOLUME CORRECTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PET DATA; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RADIOLIGAND; RAT BRAIN; REFERENCE TISSUE MODEL; SIDE INFORMATION; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SMALL ANIMAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; STRIATUM; TIME-ACTIVITY CURVES; VOLUMES OF INTERESTS;

ANIMALS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649172230     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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