Towards Direct Reconstruction from a Gamma Camera Based on Compton Scattering

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 398-407

  Cree, Michael J ^a   Bones, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING;

COMPTON SCATTERING; DIRECT RECONSTRUCTION; GAMMA CAMERA;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0028446167     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.293932     Document Type: Article

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