Review and current status of SPECT scatter correction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Hutton, Brian F ^a   Buvat, Irène ^b   Beekman, Freek J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d MILabs   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE METHODS; ATTENUATION MAPS; COMPUTATION TIME; CURRENT STATUS; ENERGY WINDOWS; GAMMA QUANTA; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGE DEGRADING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NOISE PROPERTIES; PATIENT IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD; SCATTERED PHOTONS; SMALL ANIMAL; SPECT SYSTEM; SPECT/CT;

ANIMALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79960358852     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/14/R01     Document Type: Review

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