An attenuation correction technique to correct for neutron and gamma attenuation in the reconstructed image of a neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 737-743

  Kapadia, Anuj J ^a   Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Gamma; Neutron; Spectroscopy; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; GAMMA ATTENUATION; MALIGNANCY; NSECT;

ATOMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ERROR CORRECTION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 23844507848     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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