Using fast sequential asymmetric fanbeam transmission CT for attenuation correction of cardiac SPECT imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 1335-1344

  Hollinger, Edward F ^a,b   Loncaric, Srecko ^a,b   Yu, Dan Chu ^a,b   Amjad, A H ^a,b   Chang, Wei ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Section of Medical Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; SPECT; Transmission CT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031877002     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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