A count-based algorithm for attenuation-corrected volume determination using data from an external flood source

J Nucl Med. 1985 Feb;26(2):194-200.

Abstract

We discuss the basic features of a count-based algorithm for attenuation-corrected volume determination, for use with planar gamma camera images. The attenuation correction is arrived at by combining the results of two 180 degrees opposed images with a transmission image obtained with an external flood source. A sample of the imaged radioactive volume is used to convert the attenuation-corrected count to an absolute volume. The algorithm is best suited to the measurement of small to medium-sized volumes of uniform activity, such as are encountered in cardiac blood-pool imaging.

MeSH terms

  • Heart / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Models, Structural
  • Radionuclide Imaging / methods*