Transmission imaging of large attenuators using a slant hole collimator on a three-headed SPECT system

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-272

  King, Michael A ^a   Luo, Dershan ^a   Dahlberg, Seth T ^a   Villegas, Bernard J ^a   Penney, Bill C ^b   Morgan, Hugh T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Ohio Imaging Division   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; slant hole collimation; SPECT; transmission imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ROTATION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; RADIUS OF ROTATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SLANT HOLE COLLIMATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT; TRANSMISSION IMAGING; TRANSMISSION SOURCES;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030026377     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597715     Document Type: Article

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