Scatter correction in scintigraphy: the state of the art

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 675-694

  Buvat, I ^a,b   Benali, H ^a   Todd Pokropek, A ^b   Di Paola, R ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Quantification; Scatter correction; Single photon emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPTON EFFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

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

EID: 0028335189     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00285592     Document Type: Review

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