Effects of scatter and attenuation correction on quantitative assessment of regional cerebral blood flow with SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 181-189

  Iida, Hidehiro ^a   Narita, Yuichiro ^b   Kado, Hirotsugu ^b   Kashikura, Akemi ^b   Sugawara, Shigeki ^b   Shoji, Yasuaki ^b   Kinoshita, Toshibumi ^b   Ogawa, Toshihide ^b   Eberl, Stefan ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Iodine 123; Regional cerebral blood flow; Scatter correction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IOFETAMINE I 123; TECHNETIUM 99M; WATER O 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMPHETAMINES; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; IOFETAMINE; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WATER;

EID: 0031907419     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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