Maximizing model parameter precision by optimizing dose in 3D [ 150]H20 PET scans

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4464-4471

  Walker, Matthew D ^a   Matthews, Julian C ^a   Asselin, Marie Claude ^a   Watson, Charles C ^b   Saleem, Azeem ^a   Charnley, Natalie ^a   Julyan, Peter J ^a   Price, Patricia M ^a   Jones, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow measurement; Dose optimization; Image variance; NEC; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT; DOSE OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC PET; DYNAMIC SCAN; IMAGE VARIANCE; KINETIC MODELLING; MODEL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEC; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PET SCAN; PET/CT SCANNERS; SMALL REGION; STATISTICAL NOISE; TUMOUR PERFUSION; VARIANCE IMAGES; WHOLE-BODY;

BLOOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649191687     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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