Investigation of attenuation correction for small-animal single photon emission computed tomography

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lee, Hsin Hui ^a   Chen, Jyh Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; RATS;

ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION; ATTENUATION COMPENSATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CT-BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SCATTER CORRECTION; SMALL ANIMAL SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION CORRECTION METHOD; CALIBRATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RAT; SEMICONDUCTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTISCANNING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HEART; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880163173     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/430276     Document Type: Article

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