Should scatter be corrected in both transmission and emission data for accurate quantitation in cardiac SPET?
El Fakhri G, Buvat I, Almeida P, Bendriem B, Todd-Pokropek A, Benali H. Should scatter be corrected in both transmission and emission data for accurate quantitation in cardiac SPET? European Journal Of Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging 2000, 27: 1356-1364. PMID: 11007518, DOI: 10.1007/s002590000304.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTransmission dataSingle-photon emission tomographyActivity distributionSignal-to-noise ratioCardiac single-photon emission tomographyAttenuation-corrected imagesAmount of scatterNarrow transmission windowHot compartmentActivity quantitationTransmission scanEmission dataEmission acquisitionTransmission windowReduced signal-to-noise ratioTransmission scatteringScatteringScattering componentPhantomQuantitative accuracyReduced scatteringAttenuating mediaReconstructed imagesLine sourceEmission