Quantitative planar imaging method for measurement of renal activity by using a conjugate-emission image and transmission data

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 608-615

  Kojima, Akihiro ^a   Ohyama, Yoichi ^b   Tomiguchi, Seiji ^b   Kira, Mitsuko ^b   Matsumoto, Masanori ^a   Takahashi, Mutsumasa ^b   Motomura, Nobutoku ^c   Ichihara, Takashi ^c  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conjugate view method; Planar imaging; Renal radioactivity quantification; Transmission data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; WATER TANKS;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BACKGROUND CORRECTION; CONJUGATE-VIEW METHOD; PLANAR IMAGING; RENAL RADIOACTIVITY QUANTIFICATION; TRANSMISSION DATA; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW;

TRANSMISSIONS;

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOACTIVITY; RENOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034023629     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598900     Document Type: Article

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