An optimization of reconstruction parameters and investigation into the impact of photon scatter in 67Ga SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2148-2154

  Farncombe, Troy H ^a   Gifford, Howard C ^a   Narayanan, Manoj V ^a   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Bruyant, Philippe ^a   Gennert, Michael ^b   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

67Ga; Localization receiver operating characteristic (LROC) analysis; Photon scatter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; GALLIUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS; TUMORS;

LOCALIZATION RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; PHOTON SCATTER; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036815741     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803786     Document Type: Article

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