Scatter correction in myocardial thallium SPECT: Needs for optimization of energy window settings in the energy window-based scatter correction techniques

Kakuigaku

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-90

  Narita, Yuichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), 201Tl chloride, Scatter, Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ENERGY; ERROR; HEART SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HEART; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033037560     PISSN: 00227854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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