Implementation and quantitative evaluation of analytical methods for attenuation correction in SPECT: A phantom study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2643-2655

  Shinohara, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Tomoaki ^a   Kuniyasu, Yoshio ^a   Hashimoto, Takeyuki ^b   Yokoi, Takashi ^c  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Department of Information Processing   (Japan)

^c SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLLIMATOR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032864410     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/10/318     Document Type: Article

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