Respective importance of scatter, attenuation, collimator response and partial volume effect corrections for accurate quantification in 123I dopamine receptor imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Buvat, I ^a   Soret, M ^a   Hapdey, S ^a   Riddell, C ^a   Benali, H ^a   Di Paola, R ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COLLIMATOR RESPONSE; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT CORRECTIONS; SCATTER CORRECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034594054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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