Fast SPECT Simulation Including Object Shape Dependent Scatter

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 271-282

  Beekman, Freek J ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL PHANTOM; DIGITAL BRAIN PHANTOM; ENERGY WINDOWS; OBJECT CURVATURE; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION MODEL; PROJECTION DATA; SCATTER TO PRIMARY RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRIANGULAR PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029324936     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.387709     Document Type: Article

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