Calculating internal dose by convolution from SPECT/MR fusion images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-5

  Lampinen, Juha S ^a,b   Pohjonen, Hanna K ^a   Savolainen, Sauli E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Central Hospital ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Convolution; Internal dose; Point dose kernels; SPECT MRI fusion

Indexed keywords

INDIUM 111; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIVER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031944239     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03165409     Document Type: Article

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