Noise and bias properties of monoenergetic images from DECT used for attenuation correction with PET/CT and SPECT/CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Xia, Ting ^a   Alessio, Adam M ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Dual energy CT; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROXIMATION; ANALYTIC CALCULATIONS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BIAS PROPERTIES; DUAL-ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY CT; ENERGY DEPENDENT; LIGHTSPEED; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MONOENERGETIC; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; NOISE LEVELS; PET IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; SPECT; SPECT/CT;

MEDICAL IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84861647498     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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