PET based volume segmentation with emphasis on the iterative TrueX algorithm

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-39

  Knäusl, Barbara ^a   Hirtl, Albert ^a   Dobrozemsky, Georg ^a   Bergmann, Helmar ^a   Kletter, Kurt ^a   Dudczak, Robert ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Iterative TrueX algorithm; PET based target delineation; Phantom measurements; Recovery effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL BACKGROUND RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858154210     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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