Extraction of a plasma time-activity curve from dynamic brain PET images based on independent component analysis
Naganawa M, Kimura Y, Ishii K, Oda K, Ishiwata K, Matani A. Extraction of a plasma time-activity curve from dynamic brain PET images based on independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions On Biomedical Engineering 2005, 52: 201-210. PMID: 15709657, DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2004.840193.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBrain PET imagesIndependent component analysisVolume imagesDynamic PET imagesPET imagesDynamic positron emission tomography (PET) dataAppropriate preprocessingBlood volume imagesImagesComponent analysisObjective functionPositron emission tomography dataComputer simulationsBrain FDG-PET studiesTomography dataPlasma time-activity curvePreprocessingNew methodEmission tomography dataSerial arterial blood samplingModelInput functionExtraction