Attenuation effects in gamma-camera coincidence imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 2, 1998, Pages 3115-3121

  Laymon, C M ^a   Turkington, T G ^a   Coleman, R E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN MATCHING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; GAMMA CAMERA COINCIDENCE TECHNIQUE;

GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032309912     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.737673     Document Type: Article

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