Noniterative Compensation for the Distance-Dependent Detector Response and Photon Attenuation in SPECT Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 363-374

  Glick, Stephen J ^a   Penney, Bill C ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Byrne, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

DISTANCE DEPENDENT DETECTOR RESPONSE; NONITERATIVE COMPENSATION; PHOTON ATTENUATION; SPECT;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0028449684     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.293929     Document Type: Article

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