Attenuation-emission alignment in cardiac PET/CT based on consistency conditions

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1191-1200

  Alessio, Adam M ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^a   Champley, Kyle M ^a   Caldwell, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation artifact; Attenuation correction; Cardiac PET CT; Radon consistency

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; HEART; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ATTENUATION ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; AUTOMATED ALIGNMENTS; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; CARDIAC PET/CT; CONSISTENCY CONDITIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77749292368     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3315368     Document Type: Article

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