Modeling SPECT acquisition and processing of changing radiopharmaceutical distributions

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1366-1370

  Chen, Ji ^a   Galt, James R ^a   Valentine, John D ^a   Faber, Tracy L ^a   Garcia, Ernest V ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPTON SCATTER; IMAGE ACQUISITION; POISSON NOISE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TEBOROXIME;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035554641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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