Quantitative Monte Carlo-based holmium-166 SPECT reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Elschot, Mattijs ^a   Smits, Maarten L J ^a   Nijsen, Johannes F W ^a   Lam, Marnix G E H ^a   Zonnenberg, Bernard A ^a   Van Den Bosch, Maurice A A J ^a   Viergever, Max A ^b   De Jong, Hugo W A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dosimetry; holmium 166; Monte Carlo; quantification; radioembolization; reconstruction; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; HOLMIUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROSPHERES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RECOVERY; SPECTROSCOPY;

COLLIMATOR-DETECTOR RESPONSE; IMAGE DEGRADING FACTORS; QUANTIFICATION; RADIOEMBOLIZATION; RADIONUCLIDE DISTRIBUTION; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPECT/CT; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

HOLMIUM; MICROSPHERE HOLMIUM 166; RADIOACTIVE MICROSPHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; DOWN SCATTERED HIGH ENERGY PHOTON; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; GAMMA CAMERA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC; GAMMA CAMERAS; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84889683363     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4823788     Document Type: Article

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