Variability of textural features in FDG PET images due to different acquisition modes and reconstruction parameters

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1012-1016

  Galavis, Paulina E ^a   Hollensen, Christian ^b,c   Jallow, Ngoneh ^a   Paliwal, Bhudatt ^a   Jeraj, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 77956565862     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.498437     Document Type: Article

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