Improved spect quantitation using fully three-dimensional iterative spatially variant scatter response compensation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 491-499

  Beekman, Freek J ^a   Kamphuis, Chris ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BACK PROJECTOR; CONTRAST TO NOISE CURVES; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; SHAPED DEPENDENT SCATTER; SINGLE POSITRON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030216301     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.511752     Document Type: Article

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