Energy-based compensation for nonuniform attenuation in Ga-67 SPECT imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1149-1154

  Moore, S C ^a   Muller S P ^b   Kijewski, M F ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Niversitätsklinik Essen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS;

ENERGY BASED COMPENSATION; NONUNIFORM ATTENUATION; RADON TRANSFORM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034206115     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856562     Document Type: Article

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