Attenuation, Scatter, and Spatial Resolution Compensation in SPECT

Emission Tomography: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 473-498

  King, Michael A ^a   Glick, Stephen J ^a   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Wells, R Glenn ^a   Gifford, Howard C ^a   Narayanan, Manoj V ^a   Farncombe, Troy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012744482-6.50025-9     Document Type: Chapter

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