Evaluation of 3D Monte Carlo-based scatter correction for 99mTc cardiac perfusion SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1662-1669

  Xiao, Jianbin ^a,b,d   De Wit, Tim C ^a,b   Staelens, Steven G ^c   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cardiac imaging; Monte Carlo simulation; Quantitative SPECT; Scatter correction

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM 153; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART PERFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PERFUSION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFUSION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNETIUM; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34249056407     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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