Relative impact of scatter, collimator response, attenuation, and finite spatial resolution corrections in cardiac SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1400-1408

  Fakhri, G E ^a   Buvat, I ^a   Benali, H ^a   Todd Pokropek, A ^a   Di Paola, R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Cardiac SPECT; Depth dependent collimator response; Finite spatial resolution; Monte Carlo simulation; Quantitation; Scatter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033844081     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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