Implementation of an iterative scatter correction, the influence of attenuation map quality and their effect on absolute quantitation in SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1527-1545

  Vandervoort, Eric ^a   Celler, Anna ^a   Harrop, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

PHANTOM DATA; PHOTON ATTENUATION; QSPECT; SCATTER CORRECTION (SC);

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLIMATOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEART PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34247275241     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/5/020     Document Type: Article

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