• DocumentCode
    3759531
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2014 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7430764
  • Filename
    7430764