Improvement of the fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose images in simultaneous F-18 FDG/Tc-99m collimated spect imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 917-923

  Knešaurek, Karin ^a,b   Machac, Josef ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

F 18 FDG; Simultaneous dual isotope imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHANTOMS; RESTORATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CORRECTION METHOD; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; LEFT VENTRICULAR; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCATTER CORRECTION; SIMULTANEOUS DUAL-ISOTOPE IMAGING; SPECT; ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0345643475     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598483     Document Type: Article

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