Image reconstruction with a half-detector in single-photon emission computed tomography with nonuniform attenuation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2506-2513

  Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Data symmetry; Half detector scan; Image reconstruction; Nonuniform attenuation; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS; SCANNING;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; HALF-DETECTOR SCAN; NONUNIFORM ATTENUATION; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142123059     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1592518     Document Type: Article

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