A robust and versatile method for the quantification of myocardial infarct size

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2707-2711

  Dixon, Katherine L ^a   Baldwin, Lesley N ^a   Coquinco, Bernard ^a   Vandervoort, Eric J ^a   Fung, Anthony ^a   Celler, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTOEMISSION; RELIABILITY; TISSUE;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (CAD); MATHEMATICAL CARDIAC-TORSO PHANTOM (MCAT); MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844251200     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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