Development of a practical image-based scatter correction method for brain perfusion SPECT: Comparison with the TEW method

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1193-1198

  Shidahara, Miho ^a   Watabe, Hiroshi ^b   Kyeong, Min Kim ^b   Kato, Takashi ^a   Kawatsu, Shoji ^a   Kato, Rikio ^a   Yoshimura, Kumiko ^a   Iida, Hidehiro ^b   Ito, Kengo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cerebral perfusion; Image conversion; Scatter correction; Single photon emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE BASED SCATTER CORRECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 25144502369     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-1791-2     Document Type: Article

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