Differential attenuation method for simultaneous estimation of activity and attenuation in multiemission single photon emission

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2333-2340

  Kaplan, Mitchell S ^a   Haynor, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

21Tl; Attenuation; Iterative reconstruction; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; METADATA; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL ATTENUATION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; VARIABLE TRANSFORMATION; ^21TL;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

THALLIUM 201;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; FILTRATION; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032716538     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598747     Document Type: Article

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