Reduction in variability of clinical lesion quantification with TOF-PET imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3653-3656

  Perkins, Amy E ^a   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Surti, Suleman ^a   Clementel, Enrico ^b   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN DATA; LESION DETECTABILITY; LESION QUANTIFICATION; NOISE LEVELS; PET IMAGING; PHANTOM STUDIES; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; UNIFORM CONVERGENCE;

GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79960329375     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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