Accurate Attenuation Correction in PET Using Short Transmission Scans and Consistency Information

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 427-432

  Welch, Andy ^a   Bromiley, Andrew ^a   Hallett, William ^b   Marsden, Paul ^b  

^a The John Mallard Scottish PET Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation; positron emission tomography (PET); segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CONSISTENCY INFORMATION; RADON TRANSFORM; SHORT TRANSMISSION SCANS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037706077     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812451     Document Type: Article

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