Using Simultaneous Transmission and Scatter SPECT Imaging from External Sources for The Determination of The Thoracic µ-map

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1601-1606

  Loncaric, Srecko ^a   Chang, Wei ^a   Huang, Gang ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAN BEAM COLLIMATOR; QUANTIFICATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL UPTAKE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION IMAGING;

ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0028493664     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322955     Document Type: Article

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