Intrinsic dual-energy processing of myocardial perfusion images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1287-1297

  Brown, J Keenan ^b   Tang, H Roger ^b   Hattner, Robert S ^b   Bocher, Moshe ^b   Ratzlaff, Neil W ^b   Kadkade, Prajoy P ^b   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^b   Botvinick, Elias H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

201Tl; Attenuation correction; Myocardial perfusion; SPECT

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPYRIDAMOLE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033912825     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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