compartmentalModel {oro.pet}

Compartmental Models for Kinetic Parameter Estimation

Description

A selection of parametric models are provided that combine a compartmental model for tissue and empirical versions of the arterial input function or reference region time activity curve.

Usage

compartmentalModel(type)

Arguments

type

is a character string that identifies the type of compartmental model to be used. Acceptable models include:

list("srtm")

Simplified Reference Tissue Model

list("srtm2")

Simplified Reference Tissue Model in two steps

Details

Parametric models from the PET literature are provided to the user for kinetic parameter estimation.

Value

A function.

Author(s)

Brandon Whitcher [e-mail]

References

Lammertsma, A.A and Hume, S.P. (1996) Simplified reference tissue model for PET receptor studies, NeuroImage, 4, 153-158.

Wu, Y and Carson, R.E. (2002) Noise reduction in the simplified reference tissue model for neuroreceptor functional imaging, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 22, 1440-1452.

See Also

simplifiedReferenceTissueModel