Quantitative multi-pinhole small-animal SPECT: Uniform versus non-uniform Chang attenuation correction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Wu, C ^a,b   De Jong, J R ^a   Gratama Van Andel, H A ^b,c   Van Der Have, F ^b,c,d   Vastenhouw, B ^b,c,d   Laverman, P ^e   Boerman, O C ^e   Dierckx, R A J O ^a   Beekman, F J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MILabs BV   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STUDIES; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; AVERAGE RELATIVE ERROR; BODY CONTOURS; GOLD STANDARDS; OPTICAL CAMERA; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHANTOM STUDIES; PHOTON FLUX; PINHOLE APERTURE; PINHOLE COLLIMATION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SMALL-ANIMAL; SPECT/CT; X-RAY CT;

ANIMALS; ERRORS; ISOTOPES; PHOTONS; PINHOLE CAMERAS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; TECHNETIUM; THALLIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052649030     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/18/N01     Document Type: Article

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