Post-injection transmission attenuation measurements for PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 757-761

  Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Carson, Richard E ^a   Green, Michael V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMBINED TRANSMISSION/EMISSION SCAN; POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY; POST-INJECTION TRANSMISSION ATTENUATION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0000578225     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.12827     Document Type: Article

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