Monte carlo evaluation of accuracy and noise properties of two scatter correction methods for201tl cardiac spect

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2465-2472

  Narita, Yuichiro ^a   Iida, Hidehiro ^a   Eberl, Stefan ^a   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THALLIUM;

TRANSMISSION DEPENDENT CONVOLUTION SUBTRACTION (TDCS); TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW (TEW) METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031344092     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.656453     Document Type: Article

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