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Impact of Acquisition Geometry, Image Processing, and Patient Size on Lesion Detection in Whole-Body 18F-FDG PET

Georges El Fakhri, Paula A. Santos, Ramsey D. Badawi, Clay H. Holdsworth, Annick D. Van Den Abbeele and Marie Foley Kijewski
Journal of Nuclear Medicine December 2007, 48 (12) 1951-1960; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.108.007369
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vol. 48 no. 12 1951-1960
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.108.007369
PubMed 
18006613

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Society of Nuclear Medicine
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0161-5505
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2159-662X
History 
  • Received for publication July 29, 2006
  • Accepted for publication August 24, 2007
  • Published online December 3, 2007.

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  1. Georges El Fakhri 1 ,
  2. Paula A. Santos 2 , 1 ,
  3. Ramsey D. Badawi 3 ,
  4. Clay H. Holdsworth 4 ,
  5. Annick D. Van Den Abbeele 5 and
  6. Marie Foley Kijewski 1
  1. 1Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering Institute, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; 3Department of Radiology, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California; 4Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts; and 5Department of Radiology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
  1. For correspondence or reprints contact: Georges El Fakhri, PhD, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: elfakhri{at}bwh.harvard.edu
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Journal of Nuclear Medicine Dec 2007, 48 (12) 1951-1960; DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.007369
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