Evaluation of the effects of patient arm attenuation in spect cardiac perfusion imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 6 PART 2, 1996, Pages 3291-3299

  Luo, Dershan ^a   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CARDIAC PERFUSION IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); THREE DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL CARDIAC TORSO PHANTOM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030353813     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.552738     Document Type: Article

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