SPECT/CT physical principles and attenuation correction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Patton, James A ^a   Turkington, Timothy G ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Image fusion; Instrumentation; SPECT; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENERGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42049106866     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.107.046839     Document Type: Article

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