Analytical propagation of errors in dynamic SPECT: Estimators, degrading factors, bias and noise

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1997-2014

  Kadrmas, Dan J ^a   DiBella, Edward V R ^a   Huesman, Ronald H ^b   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEBOROXIME TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ERROR; KINETICS; NOISE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KINETICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032793174     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/8/311     Document Type: Article

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