Energy-based scatter corrections for scintillation camera images of iodine-131

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2030-2037

  Pollard, Kenneth R ^a   Lewellen, Thomas K ^a   Kaplan, Mitchell S ^a   Haynor, David R ^a   Miyaoka, Robert S ^a   Eary, Janet F ^a   Durack, Lawrence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

iodine 131 imaging; scatter correction; scintillation cameras; spectrum fitting technique; window based technique

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING; MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

GAMMA CAMERAS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0030469299     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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