Artificial neural network as a tool to compensate for scatter and attenuation in radionuclide imaging.
Maksud P, Fertil B, Rica C, El Fakhri G, Aurengo A. Artificial neural network as a tool to compensate for scatter and attenuation in radionuclide imaging. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 1998, 39: 735-45. PMID: 9544691.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEnergy spectrumCompton scatteringRadioactive sourcesImages of radioactive sourcesScatter correctionArtificial neural networkNeural networkNumerical Monte Carlo simulationsMonte Carlo simulationsPelvis scansIncident photonsMultilayer neural networkProjection imagesScatteringComptonCarlo simulationsDiffusion mediaSource distributionSpectrum acquisitionEnergyGeometric sourcesHomogeneous mediumCorrectionSpectraNetwork