Development and evaluation of an improved quantitative 90Y bremsstrahlung SPECT method

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2346-2358

  Rong, Xing ^a   Du, Yong ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^b   Rault, Erwann ^c   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^c   Frey, Eric C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

model based compensation; Monte Carlo simulation; quantitative SPECT; targeted radionuclide therapy; Yttrium 90 bremsstrahlung

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; COLLIMATOR-DETECTOR RESPONSE; IMAGE DEGRADING FACTORS; MODEL-BASED COMPENSATION; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; QUANTITATIVE SPECT; TARGETED RADIONUCLIDE THERAPIES; YTTRIUM-90;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84861638196     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3700174     Document Type: Article

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