A method for model-free partial volume correction in oncological PET

EJNMMI Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hofheinz, Frank ^a   Langner, Jens ^a   Petr, Jan ^a   Beuthien Baumann, Bettina ^a,b   Oehme, Liane ^b   Steinbach, Jörg ^a   Kotzerke, Jörg ^a,b   van den Hoff, Jörg ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Partial volume correction; Partial volume effect; PET; Quantification; Recovery correction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PARTIAL VOLUME CORRECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84871777673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2191219X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2191-219X-2-16     Document Type: Article

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