Locating stored iron in the liver through attenuation measurement in NSECT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2419-2422

  Agasthya, Greeshma A ^a   Kapadia, Anuj J ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; CORRECTION FACTORS; DATA COLLECTION; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; GAMMA ATTENUATION; GAMMA DETECTORS; GAMMA PHOTONS; INELASTIC SCATTER; IRON DISTRIBUTION; IRON NUCLEI; LIVER TISSUE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; NONUNIFORM; SCANNING GEOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL VALUES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LOCATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; RETAIL STORES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

LIVER;

EID: 77951189429     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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