Evaluation of rotating slant-hole SPECT mammography using Monte Carlo Simulation methods

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50 I, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-109

  Baird, William H ^a,b   Frey, Eric C ^a,c   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,c   Wang, Yuchuan ^a,c   Wessell, Daniel E ^d,e  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Biomedical nuclear imaging; Monte Carlo methods; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037291026     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.807913     Document Type: Article

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