Acceleration of Monte Carlo-based scatter compensation for cardiac SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Sohlberg, A ^a,b   Watabe, H ^a   Iida, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b HERMES MEDICAL SOLUTIONS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC SPECT; COARSE GRIDS; COMPUTATION (CPU) TIMES; MATHEMATICAL CARDIAC TORSO (MCAT); MONTE CARLO (MC); PROJECTION DATA; SCATTER CORRECTIONS; SINGLE PROTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DRUG UPTAKE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 47649101207     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/14/N02     Document Type: Article

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