Toward accurate attenuation correction in spect without transmission measurements

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 532-541

  Welch, Andy ^a   Clack, Rolf ^a   Natterer, Frank ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Quantitation; Reconstruction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

FAN BEAM COLLIMATORS; QUANTITATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031240173     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640743     Document Type: Article

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