Assessment of scatter compensation strategies for 67Ga SPECT using numerical observers and human LROC studies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 802-812

  Farncombe, Troy H ^a   Gifford, Howard C ^b   Narayanan, Manoj V ^c   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^b   Frey, Eric C ^d   King, Michael A ^b  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CPS Innovations   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

67Ga SPECT; Localization receiver operating characteristic studies; Numerical observer; Scatter compensation

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; CITRIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM; GALLIUM CITRATE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ROC CURVE;

CITRATES; GALLIUM; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 2642556489     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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