imgckin 0.1.0 © 2009 by Turku PET Centre
Compares kinetics of time-activity curves (TACs) between given TAC and
pixels in PET image.
First, each image pixel TAC is scaled to the same AUC as given TAC;
then similarity between TACs is determined with runs test (1);
if p<0.05, then TAC kinetics are significantly different, but if p is
close to 1, they are similar.
Parameters:
1) Dynamic PET image file
2) Reference TAC file
3) Lower limit for AUC scale difference (image/reference)
4) Upper limit for AUC scale difference
5) Runs test p image file
Options:
-h, --help
Print this message and exit
--version or --build
Print software build information and exit
--silent
Program works silently, printing only warnings and error messages
--verbose
Program prints lots of information about what it is doing.
Example:
imgckin ua2918dy1.v ua2918cer.dft 0.5 10 ua2918rt.v
References:
1. Cobelli C, Forster D, Toffolo G. Tracer Kinetics in Biomedical
Research: From Data to Model. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
See also:
dftrunst,
imginteg,
ecatcalc,
ecatthrs,
ecat2tif
Keywords: image, modelling, input, runs test
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and
you are welcome to redistribute it under GNU General Public License.