Performance evaluation of compton probe and SPECT in lesion detection

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2379-2382

  Zhang, Lisha ^a   Dewaraja, Yuni ^b   Leslie Rogers, W ^b   Clinthorne, Neal H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTER IMAGING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; LESION DETECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844436387     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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