A method for quantifying SPECT uniformity

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1696-1700

  Madsen, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field uniformity; SPECT; SPECT quality control

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CENTER OF ROTATION; FIELD UNIFORMITY; PARALLEL COLLIMATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; SPECT; SPECT IMAGING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION FIELD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030720072     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597956     Document Type: Article

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