SPECT scatter modelling in non-uniform attenuating objects

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1133-1142

  Beekman, Freek J ^a   Den Harder, Johan M ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a   Van Rijk, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WATER;

EID: 0031006824     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/6/010     Document Type: Article

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