Correction for scatter and septal penetration using convolution subtraction methods and model-based compensation in 123I brain SPECT imaging - A Monte Carlo study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5753-5767

  Larsson, Anne ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^b   Mo, Susanna Jakobson ^a   Riklund, Katrine ^a   Johansson, Lennart ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING;

COLLIMATOR DETECTOR RESPONSE (CDR); EFFECTIVE SOURCE SCATTER ESTIMATION (ESSE); SEPTAL PENETRATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; IODINE 123;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846857552     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/22/003     Document Type: Article

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