Novel penalised likelihood reconstruction of PET in the assessment of histologically verified small pulmonary nodules

European Radiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 576-584

  Teoh, Eugene J ^a,b   McGowan, Daniel R ^a,b   Bradley, Kevin M ^a   Belcher, Elizabeth ^c   Black, Edward ^c   Gleeson, Fergus V ^a,b  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image quality enhancement; Image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography; Signal to noise ratio; Solitary pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PET-CT SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954369651     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-015-3832-y     Document Type: Article

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