Comparative assessment of energy-mapping approaches in CT-based attenuation correction for pet

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-198

  Ay, Mohammad R ^a,b,c   Shirmohammad, Maryam ^a,b   Sarkar, Saeed ^a,b   Rahmim, Arman ^d   Zaidi, Habib ^e,f  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Attenuation map; Energy mapping; PET CT; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BILINEAR CALIBRATION CURVE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CT BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DUAL ENERGY APPROACH; ENERGY MAPPING; HYBRID METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; PHANTOM; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL CALIBRATION CURVE; RELIABILITY; SCALING; SEGMENTATION;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551577882     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-010-0303-3     Document Type: Article

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