Evaluation of Scatter Compensation Strategies and their Impact on Human Detection Performance Tc-99m Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1522-1527

  Narayanan, Manoj V ^a,b   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Dahlberg, Seth T ^a   Leppo, Jeffery A ^a   Botkin, Naomi ^c   Krasnow, Joshua ^c   Berndt, William ^c   Frey, Eric C ^d   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CPS Innovations   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Perfusion imaging; Scatter compensation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT SCATTERING;

PERFUSION IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142031419     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817399     Document Type: Article

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