Transmission scanning in emission tomography

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 774-787

  Bailey, Dale L ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission tomography; Transmission scans

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION METHOD; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION SCANNING; TRANSMISSION SCANS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031847790     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050282     Document Type: Article

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