Attenuation correction of PET images with interpolated average CT for thoracic tumors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2559-2567

  Huang, Tzung Chi ^a,b   Mok, Greta S P ^c   Wang, Shyh Jen ^a,d   Wu, Tung Hsin ^a   Zhang, Geoffrey ^e  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^d TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SIMILAR IMAGE; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR;

HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953722817     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/8/014     Document Type: Article

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