Three-dimensional SPECT reconstruction with transmission-dependent scatter correction

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 549-556

  Sohlberg, Antti ^a   Watabe, Hiroshi ^a   Iida, Hidehiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Collimator blurring correction; Scatter correction; Statistical reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 50949119158     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0170-z     Document Type: Article

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