Energy-based scatter correction for 3-D PET scanners using nal(Tl) detectors

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 513-521

  Adam, Lars Eric ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Freifelder, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nal(tl) pet; Positron emission tomography (pet); Quantitation; Scatter correction

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DUAL ENERGY WINDOW; ENERGY BASED SCATTER CORRECTION; LOW ENERGY WINDOW;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034178293     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870261     Document Type: Article

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