A differential attenuation method for simultaneous estimation of spect activity and attenuation distributions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 535-541

  Kaplan, M S ^a   Haynor, D R ^a   Vija, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTER; DIFFERENTIAL ATTENUATION METHOD; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; POISSON NOISE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; THALLIUM;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033354256     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775575     Document Type: Article

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