Attenuation correction strategies for multi-energy photon emitters using spect

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1323-1328

  Pretorias, P H ^a,b   King, M A ^b,c,d   Pan, T S ^c,d   Hutton, B F ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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EID: 0000956321     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.597008     Document Type: Article

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