Preliminary evaluation of image reconstruction by ordered-subset expectation maximization in thallium-201 lung scintigraphy

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 619-624

  Bai, Jingming ^a   Yokoyama, Kunihiko ^a   Kinuya, Seigo ^a   Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Yamada, Masato ^a   Ichiyanagi, Kenji ^a   Michigishi, Takatoshi ^a   Tonami, Norihisa ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

201Tl scintigraphy; Image reconstruction; Lung cancer; OSEM algorithm

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0242661370     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03006680     Document Type: Article

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