Should scatter be corrected in both transmission and emission data for accurate quantitation in cardiac SPET?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1356-1364

  El Fakhri, Georges ^a   Buvat, Irène ^b   Almeida, Pedro ^c   Bendriem, Bernard ^d   Todd Pokropek, Andrew ^b   Benali, Habib ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Section of Radiology   (France)

^c HOSPITAL GARCIA DE ORTA   (Portugal)

^d CTI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute and relative quantitation; Scatter; Transmission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

HEART; HUMANS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033851089     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590000304     Document Type: Article

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