Recovery of total I-131 activity within focal volumes using SPECT and 3D OSEM

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 777-790

  Koral, Kenneth F ^a   Yendiki, Anastasia ^a   Dewaraja, Yuni K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAMERAS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HIGH ENERGY (HE); PARALLEL-HEXAGONAL-HOLE COLLIMATION; POINT SOURCE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SIMULATED PATIENT CASES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAMERA; COLLIMATOR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MODEL; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; SAMPLING; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34047273900     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/3/017     Document Type: Article

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