An investigation of scatter in attenuation correction for pet

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1038-1042

  Digby, W M ^a   Hoffman, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS--SCATTERING;

DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION SCAN;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0024610484     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.34601     Document Type: Article

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