Title :
Validation of anatomy-enhanced cardiac FDG-PET imaging: An ex vivo sheep study
Author :
A. Turco;J. Duchenne;J. Nuyts;O. Gheysens;J.U. Voigt;P. Claus;K. Vunckx
Author_Institution :
KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular imaging, Medical Imaging Research Center (MIRC), B-3000, Belgium
Abstract :
PET images suffer from partial volume effects (PVE) due to the poor spatial resolution of the PET system. Anatomy-enhanced PET reconstruction allows to restore such loss of resolution in PET images and attempt to reveal more accurately the actual tracer distribution [1] [4].
Keywords :
"Image resolution","Maximum likelihood estimation","Standards","Imaging"
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7430764
