Quantitative 131i SPECT with triple energy window compton scatter correction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 2, 1998, Pages 3109-3114

  Dewaraja, Yuni ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Koral, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PHOTONS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SCATTERING;

COMPTON SCATTER CORRECTION; DINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032312976     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.737672     Document Type: Article

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