A bound on the energy resolution required for quantitative SPECT

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 169-173

  Heanue, J A ^a,c   Brown, J K ^b   Tang, H R ^b   Hasegawa, B H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

energy resolution; quantitation; radionuclide imaging; scatter

Indexed keywords

ERROR STATISTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; QUANTITATION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030046788     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597697     Document Type: Article

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