The relative contributions of scatter and attenuation corrections toward improved brain SPECT quantification

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2991-3008

  Stodilka, Robert Z ^a,b,d   Kemp, Brad J ^a,b,c   Msaki, Peter ^a,b   Pratof, Frank S ^a,b   Nicholson, Richard L ^a,b  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD; HUMANS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031708893     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/022     Document Type: Article

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