Automated quality control of emission-transmission misalignment for attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion imaging with SPECT-CT systems

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-49

  Chen, Ji ^a   Caputlu Wilson, Serpil F ^b   Shi, Hongcheng ^a,c   Galt, James R ^a   Faber, Tracy L ^a   Garcia, Ernest V ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Automated quality control; Emission transmission misalignment; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUTOMATION; CASE REPORT; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 32044450087     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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