Visual and Quantitative Assessment of a New Anisotropic Diffusion Filter (Statistical Transfer with Optimizing Noise and Edge Sensing) for Positron Emission Tomography

Hitoshi Iizuka¹, Tomohiro Kaneta^1*, Matsuyoshi Ogawa¹, Nobutoku Motomura², Tetsu Arisawa¹, Ayako Hino-Shishikura¹, Keisuke Yoshida¹ and Tomio Inoue¹

¹Department of Radiology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

²Department of Nuclear Medicine System and Development, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi, Japan

^*Corresponding Author: Tomohiro Kaneta, Department of Radiology, Yokohama City University, 3-9 Fukuura Kanazawa-Ku, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan, Tel: 81-45-787-2696 Email: