Attenuation artifacts and time-of-flight PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2997-2999

  Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Wilson, Joshua M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; BODY CONTOURS; BODY SURFACE; CORRECTED IMAGE; CROSS SECTION; GAS POCKETS; NON-UNIFORMITIES; PET ATTENUATION; PHOTON ATTENUATION; SOURCE LOCATION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET; TRANSMISSION SCANS; WHOLE-BODY PHANTOMS;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

SPHERES;

EID: 77951179212     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401589     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. S.C. Huang, E.J. Hoffman, M. E. Phelps, D. E. Kuhl, " Quantitation in positron emission computed tomography: 2. Effects of inaccurate attenuation correction," J Comput Assist Tomogr, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 814-814, Dec. 1979.
2. D. J. Kadrmas, M. E. Casey, M. Conti, et al., "Impact of Time-of-Flight on PET Tumor Detection," J Nucl Med, vol. 50, pp. 1315-1323, 2009.