Model-based compensation for quantitative 123I brain SPECT imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1269-1282

  Du, Yong ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROTONS;

EFFECTIVE SOURCE SCATTER ESTIMATION (ESSE) TECHNIQUE; MODEL BASED METHOD; MODEL-BASED DOWNSCATTER COMPENSATION (MBDC); PHOTON EMISSIONS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

IODINE 123;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33144473664     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/5/016     Document Type: Article

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