DETECT - Dual energy transmission estimation CT - for improved attenuation correction in SPECT and PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1261-1267

  Guy, M J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERPOLATION; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION MAP; DUAL ENERGY TRANSMISSION ESTIMATION; WEIGHTED LINEAR INTERPOLATION;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0032099390     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682013     Document Type: Article

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