The Effect of Intrinsic Attenuation Correction Methods on the Stationarity of the 3-D Modulation Transfer Function of Spect

Medical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 1105-1112

  Byrne, C L ^c   Kina, M A ^a   Peeney, B C ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Medical Center   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; modulation transfer function; reconstruction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIGITAL FILTERING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0026709048     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596773     Document Type: Article

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