Calculation and validation of the use of effective attenuation coefficient for attenuation correction in In-111 SPECT

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3628-3635

  Seo, Youngho ^a   Wong, Kenneth H ^a,b,c,e   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

111In; Attenuation correction; Collimator blurring; Dual modality imaging; Scatter correction; SPECT; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COLLIMATOR BLURRING; DUAL-MODALITY IMAGING; SCATTER CORRECTION; SPECT; SPECT/CT; ^111IN;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

INDIUM 111; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; INDIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NEOPLASM; PHOTON; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644994924     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2128084     Document Type: Article

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