Healthy brain ageing assessed with 18F-FDG PET and age-dependent recovery factors after partial volume effect correction

  • Stijn Bonte
  • Pieter Vandemaele
  • Stijn Verleden
  • Kurt Audenaert
  • Karel Deblaere
  • Ingeborg Goethals
  • Roel Van Holen
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Keywords

Age 18F-FDG PET Healthy subject PVE correction 
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All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual subjects included in this study according the guidelines of the local medical ethics committee.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Stijn Bonte
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
  • Pieter Vandemaele
    • 3
  • Stijn Verleden
    • 4
  • Kurt Audenaert
    • 4
  • Karel Deblaere
    • 3
  • Ingeborg Goethals
    • 3
  • Roel Van Holen
    • 2
  1. 1.IBiTechGhent,Belgium
  2. 2.iMinds - Medical Image and Signal Processing (MEDISIP), Department of Electronics and Information SystemsGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
  3. 3.Department of Radiology and Nuclear MedicineUniversity HospitalGhentBelgium
  4. 4.Department of PsychiatryUniversity HospitalGhentBelgium

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