Effects of scatter modeling on time-activity curves estimated directly from dynamic SPECT projections

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2695-2699

  Reutter, Bryan W ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a   Huesman, Ronald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DATA ACQUISITION; DRUG PRODUCTS; INTEGRATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

NOISE-TO-SIGNAL RATIO (NSR); ROOT MEAN SQUARES (RMS); SPECT PROJECTIONS; TAC;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844297792     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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