Simultaneous acquisition of iodine-123 emission and technetium-99m transmission data for quantitative brain single-photon emission tomographic imaging

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1537-1544

  Ogasawara, Katsuhiko ^a   Hashimoto, Jun ^a,d   Ogawa, Koichi ^b   Kubo, Atsushi ^a   Motomura, Nobutoku ^c   Hasegawa, Hyoji ^c   Ichihara, Takashi ^c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Brain single photon emission tomography; Iodine 123; Simultaneous transmission emission CT scan; Triple energy window scatter correction

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; TECHNETIUM 99M; TRACER;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; COLLIMATOR; GRAY MATTER; PHANTOM; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031768161     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050333     Document Type: Article

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