Importance of attenuation correction (AC) for small animal pet imaging

Diagnostics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 42-51

  Ali, Henrik H El ^a   Bodholdt, Rasmus Poul ^a   Jørgensen, Jesper Tranekjær ^a   Myschetzky, Rebecca ^a   Kjaer, Andreas ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; MicroPET; Molecular imaging; PET imaging; Small animal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BLADDER MUCOSA; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84877309477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics2040042     Document Type: Article

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