Correction for photon attenuation without transmission measurements using compton scatter information in SPECT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4210-4212

  Sitek, Arkadiusz ^a,b   Moore, Stephen C ^a,b   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PHOTONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WINDOWS;

ACCURATE CORRECTION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; ATTENUATION MAPS; COMPTON SCATTER; DATA-SETS; EMISSION DATA; EMISSION DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY WINDOWS; EXTERNAL-; LINEAR RELATIONS; MULTIPLE PASSES; NEW APPROACHES; NON UNIFORM; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PHOTO PEAKS; PHOTON ATTENUATIONS; SIEMENS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SPECT IMAGING; SPECT SYSTEM; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

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EID: 48149091609     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437046     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (1)

1. T-S Pan, M. A. King, D. J. de Vries, and M. Ljungberg, "Segmentation of the body and lungs from Compton scatter and photopeak window data in SPECT: a Monte-Carlo investigation," Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 15, pp. 13, 1996.