Compensation for nonuniform attenuation in SPECT brain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2 PART 2, 1996, Pages 737-750

  Glick, Stephen J ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Pan, Tin Su ^a   Scares, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BELLINI METHOD; CHANG METHOD; DIGITIZED ANTHROPOMORPHIC BRAIN PHANTOM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; NONUNIFORM ATTENUATION MAP; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030128281     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.491524     Document Type: Article

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