Development of a lead x-ray compensation method in simultaneous tl-201 spect & tc-99m tct using a flood source

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2459-2464

  Motomura, N ^a   Ichihara, T ^b   Hasegawa, H ^b   Ogawa, K ^c   Hashimoto, J ^c   Kubo, A ^c  

^a TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GAMMA RAYS; ISOTOPES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; TECHNETIUM; THALLIUM; X RAYS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); TRANSMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (TCT); TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW (TEW) METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031386268     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.656452     Document Type: Article

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