Scatter-to-primary based scatter fractions for transmission-dependent convolution subtraction of SPECT images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Larsson, Anne ^a   Johansson, Lennart ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; WATER;

SCATTER FRACTIONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0344898289     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/22/N03     Document Type: Article

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