Lesion quantification in oncological positron emission tomography: A maximum likelihood partial volume correction strategy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3040-3049

  De Bernardi, Elisabetta ^a   Faggiano, Elena ^a   Zito, Felicia ^b   Gerundini, Paolo ^b   Baselli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood reconstruction; Partial volume effect correction; PET; Regional basis functions; Uptake quantification; Volume estimate

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRONS; RECOVERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BASIS FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; UPTAKE QUANTIFICATION; VOLUME ESTIMATES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DRUG UPTAKE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 67649598603     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3130019     Document Type: Article

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