Correction of oral contrast artifacts in CT-based attenuation correction of PET images using an automated segmentation algorithm

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Alireza Ahmadian
Mohammad R. Ay
Javad H. Bidgoli
Saeed Sarkar
Habib Zaidi
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[1] Medical Sciences/University of Tehran,Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine
[2] Medical Sciences/University of Tehran,Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
[3] East Tehran Azad University,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
[4] Geneva University Hospital,Division of Nuclear Medicine
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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | 2008年 / 35卷
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PET; X-ray CT; Attenuation correction; Segmentation; Contrast medium;
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