Quantitative evaluation for scatter and attenuation correction in 99mTc SPECT -Multicenter cooperation phantom study

Kakuigaku

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 160-162

  Shinohara, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Ogawa, Koichi ^a,d   Nakagawara, Jyoji ^a,e   Tomiguchi, Seiji ^a,f   Nakajima, Kenichi ^a,g   Iida, Hidehiro ^a,h   Kumita, Shin Ichiro ^a,i   Uehara, Toshiisa ^a,j   Nishikawa, Junichi ^a,k   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^b,l   Yamamoto, Tomoaki ^c   Honda, Minoru ^c   Kuji, Ichiei ^g   Yamada, Masato ^g   Fukuda, Toshio ^m   Kinoshita, Fujimi ⁿ   Inoue, Tomio ^o   Hashimoto, Takeyuki ^p   Ikegaya, Kazuo ^q   Takahashi, Munehiro ^r  

^a SPECT Quantification Working Group   (Japan)

^b Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Nakamura Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^f KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

ⁱ Nihon Medical University   (Japan)

^j OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^m TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ Chiba Prefecture Cancer Center   (Japan)

^o GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^p Department of Information Processing   (Japan)

^q TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^r SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

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Author keywords

99mTc single photon emission CT; Attenuation correction; Phantom study; Triple energy window scatter correction

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034056026     PISSN: 00227854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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