A transmission-map-based scatter correction technique for SPECT in inhomogeneous media

Medical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1627-1635

  Morgan, Hugh T ^b   Gullberg, Grant T ^a   Christian, Paul E ^a   Datz, Frederick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Ohio Imaging of Picker International ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

scatter correction; SPECT; transmission emission imaging

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; EMISSION IMAGING; EMISSION PROJECTIONS; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM; SCATTER CORRECTION; SPECT;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028818273     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597422     Document Type: Article

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