Improvement of brain single photon emission tomography (SPET) using transmission data acquisition in a four-head SPET scanner

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 32-38

  Murase, Kenya ^a   Tanada, Shuji ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Sugawara, Yoshifumi ^a   Hamamoto, Ken ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fourhead SPET scanner; Iterative expectation maximization algorithm; Non uniform attenuation correction; Single photon emission tomography; Transmission data acquisition

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHANTOM; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0027393259     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02261243     Document Type: Article

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