A review of partial volume correction techniques for emission tomography and their applications in neurology, cardiology and oncology

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Erlandsson, Kjell ^a   Buvat, Irène ^b   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^c   Thomas, Benjamin A ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ANATOMICAL IMAGES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CORRECTION TECHNIQUES; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ARTEFACTS; INVERSE FILTERING; PARTIAL VOLUME CORRECTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PHOTON ATTENUATION; PHYSICAL FACTORS; RANDOM COINCIDENCES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CARDIOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NEUROLOGY; ONCOLOGY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; CARDIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CARDIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; NEUROLOGY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84868032865     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/21/R119     Document Type: Review

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