Transmission imaging for nonuniform attenuation correction using a three-headed SPECT camera

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1105-1110

  Gilland, David R ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a   Greer, Kim L ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Fanbeam collimation; Maximum likelihood expectation maximization reconstruction; SPECT; Transmission CT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COLLIMATOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031864145     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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