Effect of registration errors between transmission and emission scans on a SPECT system using sequential scanning

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 365-373

  Stone, Craig D ^a   McCormick, James W ^a   Gilland, David R ^a   Greer, Kim L ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emission scan; Registration; Sequential scan; SPECT; Transmission scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031916120     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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