# Nuclide record partial-volume-effect (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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<https://nuclide.cc/terms/partial-volume-effect/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "partial-volume-effect" ;
  schema:name "Partial volume effect (PVE)"@en ;
  schema:description "A PET or SPECT scan can make small tumours or lesions look fainter than they really are, simply because the scanner cannot see fine detail perfectly; the true 'brightness' gets smeared out over a wider area, especially in objects smaller than about 1-2 cm."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/partial-volume-effect/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9803618/>, <https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/48/6/932> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/attenuation-correction/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/suv/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/time-of-flight-pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/lu-177/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/quantitative-imaging-biomarkers/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-dosimetry/> .