Incorporating patient-specific variability in the simulation of realistic whole-body 18F-FDG distributions for oncology applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2026-2038

  Le Maitre, Amandine ^a   Segars, William Paul ^b   Marache, Simon ^c   Reilhac, Anthonin ^d   Hatt, Mathieu ^a   Tomei, Sandrine ^c   Lartizien, Carole ^c   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Database; Monte Carlo simulation; Positron emission tomography (PET); SORTEO

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; TUMORS;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; NURBS-BASED CARDIAC TORSOS; PATIENT SPECIFIC MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RIGOROUS EVALUATION; SORTEO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70450174223     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2027925     Document Type: Article

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