A three-dimensional ray-driven attenuation, scatter and geometric response correction technique for SPECT in inhomogeneous media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3459-3480

  Laurette, I ^a,c   Zeng, G L ^a   Welch, A ^b   Christian, P E ^a   Gullberg, G T ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPTON EFFECT; GEOMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033778110     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/11/325     Document Type: Article

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