A study of apparent apical defects in attenuation corrected cardiac SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6 PART 3, 1999, Pages 2104-2110

  Bai, Chuanyong ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS;

APICAL DEFECTS; APICAL THINNING; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DEPTH DEPENDENT DETECTOR RESPONSE; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMATION ALGORITHM; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033339626     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.819289     Document Type: Article

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