A New Phantom for Fast Determination of the Scatter Response of a Gamma Camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1481-1488

  Beckman, F J ^a   Frey, E C ^a   Tsui, B M W ^a   Kamphuis, C ^b   Viergever, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETERIZATION; SCATTER RESPONSE FUNCTION; SCATTER TO PRIMARY RATIOS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRIANGULAR PHANTOM;

CAMERAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; RADIATION DETECTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028493568     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322935     Document Type: Article

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