Implementation and preliminary investigation of analytical methods for correction of distance-dependent resolution variation and uniform attenuation in 3d brain SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6 PART 3, 1999, Pages 2162-2171

  Li, Jian ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS;

FIELD OF VIEW; INVERSION FORMULA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION VARIATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033346714     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.819299     Document Type: Article

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