Attenuation compensation for cardiac single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging: Part 1. Impact of attenuation and methods of estimating attenuation maps

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 513-524

  King, Michael A ^a,b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b   Pan, Tin Su ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; segmentation; single photon emission computed tomography; transmission imaging

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HUMAN; NOISE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029564459     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(05)80044-3     Document Type: Review

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