Investigation of approaches to reduce truncation of attenuation maps with simultaneous transmission and emission spect imaging1

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1200-1206

  Narayanan, Manoj V ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Pan, Tin Su ^a   Dahlberg, Seth T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ATTENUATION MAPS; EMISSION IMAGING; FAN BEAM COLLIMATORS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032096158     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682003     Document Type: Article

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