Importance of bone attenuation in brain SPECT quantification

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 190-197

  Stodilka, Robert Z ^b   Kemp, Brad J ^b   Prato, Frank S ^a   Nicholson, Richard L ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain SPECT attenuation; Chang attenuation correction; Head phantom; Sorenson attenuation correction

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCALP; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; TRABECULAR BONE; VOLUMETRY;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKULL; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031881850     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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