PET quantification: Strategies for partial volume correction

Clinical and Translational Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 199-218

  Bettinardi, V ^a   Castiglioni, I ^b   De Bernardi, E ^c   Gilardi, M C ^a,b,c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Partial volume effect; PET; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BRAIN ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFLAMMATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MOTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84925504208     PISSN: 22815872     EISSN: 22817565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40336-014-0066-y     Document Type: Review

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