Evaluation of attenuation correction methodology in the Allegro PET system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2688-2692

  Talguen, Valerie ^a   Turzo, Alexandre ^a   Bizais, Yves ^a   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; TUMORS; X RAYS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; EMISSION CONTAMINATION (EC);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 8344228610     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.835741     Document Type: Article

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