Comparison of frequency-distance relationship and gaussian-diffusion- based methods of compensation for distance-dependent spatial resolution in SPECT imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1025-1037

  Kohli, Vandana ^a,b   King, Michael A ^a   Glick, Stephen J ^a   Pan, Tin Su ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031961637     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/4/029     Document Type: Article

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