Comparison of transmission acquisition approaches for spect nonuniform attenuation compensation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1244-1249

  Gilland, D R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; PARALLEL BEAM COLLIMATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PHANTOM; TRANSMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032099328     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682010     Document Type: Article

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