Validation of quantitative accuracy of the post-injection transmission-based and transmissionless attenuation correction techniques in neurological fdg-pet

Koichiro Kaneko, Yasuo Kuwabara, Masayuki Sasaki, Hirofumi Koga, Koichiro Abe, Shingo Baba, Kazutaka Hayashi, Hiroshi Honda

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Abstract

We evaluated the quantitative accuracy of the post-injection transmission-based segmented attenuation correction (SAC) technique and transmissionless calculated attenuation correction (CAC) technique in both 2D and 3D scanning for the brain, and compared the results with those obtained using the pre-injection transmission-based measured attenuation correction (MAC) technique, which is generally accepted as the ‘gold standard’.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1095-1102
Number of pages8
JournalNuclear medicine communications
Volume25
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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