A comparison of two attenuation correction methods in 111In-Pentetriotide abdom...

• Author(s): Costa, P. A. ; Clemente, J. C. ; Gonçalves, P. A. ; Vieira, Lina
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2515
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Nuclear medicine; Abdominal SPECT/CT; Attenuation correction; Chang method
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Tomographic image can be degraded, partially by patient based attenuation. The aim of this paper is to quantitatively verify the effects of attenuation correction methods Chang and CT in 111In studies through the analysis of profiles from abdominal SPECT, correspondent to a uniform radionuclide uptake organ, the left kidney.