The use of zeolites to generate PET phantoms for the validation of quantification strategies in oncology

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5353-5361

  Zito, Felicia ^a   De Bernardi, Elisabetta ^b,c   Soffientini, Chiara ^b   Canzi, Cristina ^a   Casati, Rosangela ^a   Gerundini, Paolo ^a   Baselli, Giuseppe ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

PET experimental phantom; validation of quantificationsegmentation algorithms; zeolites for PET lesion simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; ACTIVITY QUANTIFICATION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; DISTRIBUTION UNIFORMITY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION;

ZEOLITES;

EID: 84866095386     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736812     Document Type: Article

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