Activity Quantitation In Spect: A Comparison Of Three Attenuation Correction Methods In Combination With Pre-Reconstruction Restoration Filtering

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 755-760

  King, Michael A ^a   Glick, Stephen J ^a   Penney, Bill C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS - EMISSION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

METZ FILTERING; SPECT IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026138703     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.289385     Document Type: Article

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