Ultra low dose CT attenuation correction maps for emission computed tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2123-2127

  Kadhem, Haval ^a   Rodriguez, Daniel ^a   Tena, Jose Rafael ^a   Wells, Kevin ^a   Lewis, Emma ^a   Guy, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

K-MEANS CLUSTERING; STATISTICAL NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649085354     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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