Rapid multi-tracer PET tumor imaging with 18F-FDG and secondary shorter-lived tracers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2750-2758

  Black, Noel F ^a   McJames, Scott ^b   Kadrmas, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi tracer imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; DYNAMIC PET; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GOLD STANDARDS; IN-VIVO; MULTI-TRACER DATA; MULTI-TRACER IMAGING; PET TRACER; QUANTITATIVE DYNAMICS; SCAN DATA; TRACER KINETICS; TRACER TECHNIQUE; TUMOR CHARACTERIZATION; TUMOR IMAGING; TUMOR MODELS;

BLOOD; GLUCOSE; HEMODYNAMICS; POSITRONS; RECOVERY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350147265     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2026417     Document Type: Article

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