CT-based attenuation correction on the FLEX Triumph™ preclinical PET/CT scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3357-3362

  Prasad, Rameshwar ^a   Ay, Mohammad Reza ^b   Ratib, Osman ^c   Zaidi, Habib ^d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; BEST FIT EQUATION; BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CALIBRATION CURVES; COMBINED PET/CT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CT-BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; DEGRADING FACTORS; IN-VIVO; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; LOW ENERGIES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PET DATA; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PET/CT SCANNERS; PHOTON ATTENUATION; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; X-RAY SPECTRA;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951160767     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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