A recovery coefficient method for partial volume correction of PET images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-348

  Srinivas, Shyam M ^a   Dhurairaj, Thiruvenkatasamy ^b   Basu, Sandip ^c,d   Bural, Gonca ^e   Surti, Suleman ^c   Alavi, Abass ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot sphere warm background phantom; Partial volume correction; Positron emission tomography; Recovery coefficient

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67651177441     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0241-9     Document Type: Article

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