Absolute activity quantitation in simultaneous 123I/99mTc brain SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 300-308

  El Fakhri, G ^a   Moore, S C ^a   Maksud, P ^a   Aurengo, A ^a   Kijewski, M F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute quantitation; Artificial neural network; Cross talk compensation; Dual isotope brain SPECT; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BENZAMIDES; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PARKINSON DISEASE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PUTAMEN; PYRROLIDINES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035128888     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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