Investigation of large fffild-of-vlew transmission imaging for spect attenuation compensation with GO-153, TC-99m and CE-139 sources

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1182-1191

  Tornai', Martin P ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a   Gilland, David R ^b   Edward Coleman, R ^b   Ooie, Yasuhide ^a   Taguchi, Masatoshi ^a   Enos, Gary ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c Hitachi Medical Systems America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

DUAL HEADED GAMMA CAMERA; NON UNIFORM ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; ORDERED SUBSETS ESTIMATION MAXIMIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034207024     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856567     Document Type: Article

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