Triple Energy Window Scatter Correction Technique in PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 641-648

  Shao, Lingxiong ^a   Freifelder, Richard ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING;

CALIBRATION PHANTOM; COMPTON SCATTERING; PENN PET SCANNER; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW TECHNIQUE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028714039     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.363104     Document Type: Article

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