Dynamic whole-body PET parametric imaging: II. Task-oriented statistical estimation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7419-7445

  Karakatsanis, Nicolas A ^a   Lodge, Martin A ^a   Zhou, Y ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a   Rahmim, Arman ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION METHODS; TASK-BASED PERFORMANCE;

MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

ESTIMATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC USE; PROCEDURES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84884628052     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/20/7419     Document Type: Article

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