An overview of attenuation and scatter correction of planar and SPECT data for dosimetry studies

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 181-190

  King, Michael A ^a   Farncombe, Troy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation Correction; Dosimetry; Quantitation; Scatter Correction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038743236     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/108497803765036346     Document Type: Article

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