Segmentation of the body and lungs from compton scatter and photopeak window data in SPECT: A Monte-Carlo investigation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-24

  Pan, Tin Su ^a,b   King, Michael A ^a   De Vries, Daniel J ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TISSUE;

ANTROPOMORPHIC PHANTOM; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMPTON SCATTER; ENERGY WINDOW; PATIENT SPECIFIC ATTENUATION MAP; PHOTOPEAK WINDOW DATA; SINGLE POSITRON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030083428     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.481437     Document Type: Article

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