Quantitative SPECT/CT: SPECT joins PET as a quantitative imaging modality

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages

  Bailey, Dale L ^a,b   Willowson, Kathy P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Quantitative; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; POSITRON CAMERA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; GAMMA CAMERA; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84905577677     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-013-2542-4     Document Type: Article

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