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Is attenuation correction thickness in a PET scan for length between slides or tumor thickness?

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Is attenuation correction thickness in a PET scan for length between slides or tumor thickness?

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Attenuation correction in PET scans is actually aimed at accounting for the differences in the attenuation of the radiation signatures exhibited by different tissues because of the losses that materials impose on radiation passing through it. There are whole textbooks on this subject, and it is quite involved.