Quantification accuracy and partial volume effect in dependence of the attenuation correction of a state-of-the-art small animal PET scanner

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3981-3993

  Mannheim, Julia G ^a   Judenhofer, Martin S ^a   Schmid, Andreas ^a   Tillmanns, Julia ^b   Stiller, Detlef ^b   Sossi, Vesna ^c   Pichler, Bernd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY LEVELS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; CONTRAST RATIO; CORRECTION METHOD; DYNAMIC RANGE; FIELD OF VIEWS; OBJECT SIZE; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PET SCANNER; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIEMENS; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; TOTAL EMISSIONS; TRANSMISSION SOURCES;

ALGORITHMS; RATING; SPHERES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862001744     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/12/3981     Document Type: Article

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