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Guidelines for Nuclear Image Analysis

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The strength of nuclear imaging is based on its ability to reveal quantitative information. Especially positron emission tomography (PET) offers, as long as all corrections, such as for photon attenuation, scatter and partial volume effect are applied, highly quantitative data. This chapter describes the different pitfalls in PET image analysis and necessary correction methods to yield quantitative images. Furthermore, it provides practical recipes for quantitative image analysis.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology of the Werner Siemens-Foundation, University of Tübingen, Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Martin S. Judenhofer, Stefan Wiehr, Damaris Kukuk, Kristina Fischer & Bernd J. Pichler

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Correspondence to Martin S. Judenhofer .

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  1. Chair of Experimental Molecular Imaging, University of Aachen (RWTH), Pauwelsstraße 20, Aachen, 52074, Germany

    Fabian Kiessling

  2. Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology of the Werner Siemens-Foundation, Department of Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Röntgenweg 13, Tübingen, 72076, Germany

    Bernd J. Pichler

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Judenhofer, M.S., Wiehr, S., Kukuk, D., Fischer, K., Pichler, B.J. (2011). Guidelines for Nuclear Image Analysis. In: Kiessling, F., Pichler, B. (eds) Small Animal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12945-2_26

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