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

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 66-75

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

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; energy mapping; PET CT; quantification; small animals

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ENERGY-MAPPING; PET/CT; QUANTIFICATION; SMALL-ANIMALS;

ANIMALS; ATOMS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAPPING; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATING; SCANNING; TISSUE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79951676803     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2087416     Document Type: Article

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