SPECT scatter correction in non-homogeneous media

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 511 LNCS, Issue , 1991, Pages 34-44

  Meikle, S R ^a   Hutton, B F ^a   Bailey, D L ^a   Fulton, R R ^a   Schindhelm, K ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Convolution subtraction; Lower window subtraction; Quantitation; Tomography; Transmission

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVOLUTION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIONS;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ATTENUATION; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; LOWER WINDOW SUBTRACTION; NONHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; PHOTON TRANSMISSION; QUANTITATION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84968131320     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0033740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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