Experimental determination of the weighting factor for the energy window subtraction-based downscatter correction for I-123 in brain SPECT studies

Journal of Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 215-222

  De Nijs, Robin ^a   Holm, Søren ^a   Thomsen, Gerda ^a   Ziebell, Morten ^a   Svarer, Claus ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Downscatter correction; Energy window subtraction; Iodine 123; SPECT; Weighting factors

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; IODINE 123;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; ENERGY WINDOW SUBTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WEIGHT;

EID: 79951496868     PISSN: 09716203     EISSN: 19983913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6203.71765     Document Type: Article

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