Evaluation of cardiac cone—beam single photon emission computed tomography using observer performance experiments and receiver operating characteristic analysis

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1101-1112

  Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a   Terry, James A ^a,b   Gullberg, Grant T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Cone beam; Receiver operating characteristic; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027842861     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199312000-00004     Document Type: Article

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