Anatomically guided voxel-based partial volume effect correction in brain PET: Impact of MRI segmentation

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 610-619

  Gutierrez, Daniel ^a   Montandon, Marie Louise ^a   Assal, Frédéric ^a   Allaoua, Mohamed ^a   Ratib, Osman ^a   Lövblad, Karl Olof ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^a,b,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; MRI; Partial volume effect; PET; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ANATOMICALLY-GUIDED; BRAIN IMAGING; BRAIN MRI; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COREGISTERED; CURRENT GENERATION; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; MR IMAGES; MRI SEGMENTATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE; NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PET SCANNER; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; TISSUE;

NEUROIMAGING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84869083591     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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