Quantitative rotating multisegment slant-hole SPECT mammography with attenuation and collimator-detector response compensation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 906-916

  Xu, Jingyan ^a   Liu, Chi ^a   Wang, Yuchuan ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

COLLIMATOR DETECTOR RESPONSE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; MAMMOGRAPHY IMAGES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34547332979     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.895480     Document Type: Article

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