Compensation of Tissue Absorption in Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1979, Pages 213-218

  Bellini, Sandro ^a   Piacentini, Maurizio ^a   Cafforio, Ciro ^a   Rocca, Fabio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

RADIOISOTOPE;

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SCINTIGRAPHY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0018480166     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASSP.1979.1163232     Document Type: Article

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