The Use of Filtering Methods to Compensate for Constant Attenuation in Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-28, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 142-157

  Gullberg, Grant T ^a,b   Budinger, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - APPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY - GAMMA RAY; STATISTICAL METHODS - APPLICATIONS;

EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

RADIOISOTOPE;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DIGITAL FILTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHOTON SCANNING; SCINTISCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

FILTRATION; MATHEMATICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0019394035     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1981.324787     Document Type: Article

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