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Estimation of noise-corrected pulmonary blood flow heterogeneity using positron emission tomography
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Estimation of noise-corrected pulmonary blood flow heterogeneity using positron emission tomography

T. Winkler, M. Martinez, D. Layfield and J. G. Venegas
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings, Vol.2, pp.1521-1522
2002
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106516

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Abstract

The coefficient of variation (CoV) is frequently used to describe functional or structural heterogeneity but is overestimated by the contribution of noise from the measurement method. We evaluated a method to estimate a noise-corrected heterogeneity. It delivers results with a narrow confidence interval. That method has been used to estimate the heterogeneity of pulmonary blood flow in humans as well as in animals.
Estimation Heterogeneity Positron emission tomography Pulmonary blood flow

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