Attenuation correction for small animal SPECT imaging using x-ray CT data

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2799-2804

  Hwang, Andrew B ^a   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentuation correction; Small animal imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; SODIUM IODIDE;

ATTENTUATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SPECT;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IODINE 125; SODIUM IODIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 25644457673     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1984347     Document Type: Article

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