Attenuation correction of spect using x-ray ct on an emissiontransmission ct system: myocardial perfusion assessment

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2263-2274

  Blankespoor, S C ^a   Wu, X ^a   Kalki, K ^a   Brown, J K ^a   Tang, H R ^a   Cann, C E ^a   Hasegawa, B H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MYOCARDIAL ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS; SCANNER; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TORSO PHANTOM; X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030216396     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.531891     Document Type: Article

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