Development and evaluation of a model-based downscatter compensation method for quantitative I-131 SPECT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3193-3204

  Song, Na ^a   Du, Yong ^a   He, Bin ^b   Frey, Eric C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

downscatter contamination; model based compensation; QSPECT; quantitative I 131 imaging; radionuclide therapy

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; COLLIMATOR-DETECTOR RESPONSE; HIGHER ENERGY PHOTONS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL-BASED COMPENSATION; QSPECT; RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY; TARGETED RADIONUCLIDE THERAPIES;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958806596     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3590382     Document Type: Article

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