Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 483-492 , July 2007

An input function estimation method for FDG-PET human brain studies

  • Hongbin Guo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1804, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 480 965 8002; fax: +1 480 965 4160.
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  • Rosemary A. Renaut

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1804, USA
    • ,
  • Kewei Chen

      Affiliations

    • Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85006, USA
    • Banner Good Samaritan Positron Emission Tomography Center, Phoenix, AZ 85006, USA

Received 29 January 2007 ,Revised 2 March 2007 ,Accepted 15 March 2007.

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☆ This study was supported by the Arizona Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research and funded by the Arizona Department of Health Services and the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. EB 2553301).

PII: S0969-8051(07)00086-8

doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2007.03.008

Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 483-492 , July 2007

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