Comparison of scatter compensation strategies for myocardial perfusion imaging using Tc-99m labeled sestamibi

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2309-2314

  Gur, Yigal S ^a   Farncombe, Troy H ^a   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Gifford, Howard C ^a   Narayanan, Manoj V ^a   Frey, Eric C ^b   Gagnon, Daniel ^c   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Marconi Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Scatter compensation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; SCATTERING;

MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; SCATTER COMPENSATION STRATEGIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036815749     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803859     Document Type: Article

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