Small field-of-view dedicated cardiac SPECT systems: Impact of projection truncation

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 528-536

  Xiao, Jianbin ^a,b   Verzijlbergen, Fred J ^c   Viergever, Max A ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Robeco   (Netherlands)

^c ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cardiac SPECT; Scatter correction; Small field of view; Truncation

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77949266025     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1223-9     Document Type: Article

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