Effects of scatter subtraction on detection and quantitation in hepatic SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1011-1023

  De Vries, Daniel J ^a   King, Michael A ^b   Soares, Edward J ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b   Metz, Charles E ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Lesion detection; Receiver operating characteristic analysis; Scatter correction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LIVER TUMOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROC CURVE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EFFICIENCY; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032587185     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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