Monte Carlo and experimental evaluation of accuracy and noise properties of two scatter correction methods for SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2481-2496

  Narita, Yuuichiro ^a,b   Eberl, Stefan ^b   Iida, Hidehiro ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^c   Braun, Michael ^d   Nakamura, Takashi ^e   Bautovich, George ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AIR; BONE CEMENTS; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; METHYLMETHACRYLATE; METHYLMETHACRYLATES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WATER;

EID: 0029969069     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/11/017     Document Type: Article

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