A gamma camera count rate saturation correction method for whole-body planar imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 817-821

  Hobbs, Robert F ^a   Baechler, Sébastien ^b   Senthamizhchelvan, Srinivasan ^a   Prideaux, Andrew R ^a   Esaias, Caroline E ^a   Reinhardt, Melvin ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a   Loeb, David M ^a   Sgouros, George ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CORRECTION METHOD; COUNT RATES; DEAD-TIME CORRECTION; DEADTIME; DEGREE OF PRECISION; DETECTOR HEADS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FUNCTION OF TIME; GAMMA CAMERAS; HIGH ACTIVITY; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MEASURED DATA; NEWTON'S METHODS; PHANTOM DATA; PLANAR IMAGING; RELATIVE MOTION; SATURATION CURVE; SATURATION EFFECTS; SIMULATED DATA; STATIC CAMERAS; TIME-DEPENDENT; WHOLE-BODY;

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; RADIOACTIVITY; SAMARIUM;

CAMERAS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76149137458     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/3/018     Document Type: Article

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