Effects of the attenuation map used in the Chang algorithm on quantitative SPECT results

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 178-185

  Cao, ZongJian ^a   Holder, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation compensation; Image reconstruction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ERROR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031686956     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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