An investigation of the filtering of TEW scatter estimates used to compensate for scatter with ordered subset reconstructions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1140-1145

  King, M A ^a   Devries, D J ^b   Pan, T S ^a   Pretorias, P H ^b   Case, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

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EID: 0001190372     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.596978     Document Type: Article

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