학술논문

The Effect of Attenuation and Scatter Correction in Rat Brain PET
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 60(2):751-757 Apr, 2013
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Positron emission tomography
Phantoms
Image reconstruction
Spatial resolution
Attenuation
Attenuation correction
brain PET
positron emission tomography
scatter correction
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
Attenuation correction (AC) and scatter correction (SC) are problematic issues for animal positron emission tomography (PET). In this study, the effects of AC and SC were assessed using PET on a phantom and actual rat brain.