Patient-specific dosimetry using quantitative SPECT imaging and three- dimensional discrete Fourier transform convolution

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 308-314

  Akabani, Gamal ^a   Hawkins, William G ^a   Eckblade, Miriam B ^a   Leichner, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dosimetry; fast Fourier transform; Monte Carlo calculations; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOIMMUNODETECTION; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031039314     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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