The Effects of Center of Rotation Errors on Cardiac SPECT Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1528-1535

  Bai, Chuanyong ^a   Shao, Ling ^a   Ye, Jinghan ^a   Durbin, Mary ^a  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Center of rotation error; Lesion to background contrast

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CARDIAC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142126396     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817288     Document Type: Article

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