Optimization of the width of the photopeak energy window in the TDCS technique for scatter correction in quantitative SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 625-630

  Deloar, Hossian M ^a   Watabe, Hiroshi ^a   Kim, Kyeong Min ^a   Aoi, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Kunieda, Etsuo ^c   Fujii, Hirofumi ^c   Iida, Hidehiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy dependency; Scatter correction; SPECT; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENERGY DEPENDENCY; SCATTER CORRECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); TRANSMISSION-DEPENDENT CONVOLUTION SUBSTRACTION (TDCS);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3342985885     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829752     Document Type: Article

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