Compensation for collimator divergence in spect using inverse Monte Carlo reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 784-787

  Floyd, C E ^a   Jaszczak, R J ^a   Manglos, S H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS - MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COMPENSATION FOR COLLIMATOR DIVERGENCE; INVERSE MONTE CARLO RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE-PHOTON-EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0004306154     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.12832     Document Type: Article

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