The design and performance of a simultaneous transmission and emission tomography system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 4, 1998, Pages 1676-1698

  Gullberg, Grant T ^a,c   Morgan, Hugh T ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a   Christian, Paul E ^b   Di Bella, Edward V R ^a   Tung, Chi Hua ^a   Maniawski, Piotr J ^a   Hsieh, Yu Lung ^b   Dat, Frederick L ^a  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Picker International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger gamma camera; Attenuation correction; Brain spect; Cardiac spjkct; Clinical imaging hardware; Clinical imaging software; Emission computed tomography; Fan beam tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ANGER GAMMA CAMERA; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CLINICAL IMAGING HARDWARE; FAN BEAM COLLIMATOR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032096111     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.685291     Document Type: Article

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