Organ volume estimation using SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 3, 1996, Pages 2174-2182

  Zaidi, H ^a  

^a Centre de Radioprotection et de Surete   (Algeria)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS;

CHANG ALGORITHM; GRAY LEVEL HISTOGRAM METHOD; ORGAN VOLUME ESTIMATION; RECONSTRUCTION FILTER; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID PHANTOM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030167764     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.502313     Document Type: Article

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