The effect of inaccurate bone attenuation coefficient and segmentation on reconstructed PET images

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 708-716

  Schleyer, Paul J ^a   Schaeffter, Tobias ^a   Marsden, Paul K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; multimodality; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; BONE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954244658     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32833b0573     Document Type: Article

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