Bone SPECT of the spine: A comparison of attenuation correction techniques

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 604-613

  Case, James A ^a   Licho, Robert ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Weaver, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Back pain; Bone SPECT; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032931721     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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