Design and experimental validation of a quantitative myocardial201t1 spect system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 720-726

  Lida, Hidehiro ^a   Shoji, Yasuaki ^b   Sugawara, Shigeki ^a   Kinoshita, Toshifumi ^b   Tamura, Yoshikazu ^a   Narita, Yuichiro ^a   Eberl, Stefan ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BIOPHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; MYOCARDIAL SYSTEM; RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX; TRANSMISSION DEPENDENT CONVOLUTION SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033321120     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775605     Document Type: Article

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