Transmission Imaging and Attenuation Correction for the MicroPET® P4 Tomograph

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1298-1302

  Chow, Patrick L ^a   Bai, Bing ^b   Siegel, Stefan ^c   Leahy, Richard M ^b   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Concorde Microsystems Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TRANSMISSION IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142148060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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