WO2001093763A3 - Event localization and fall-off correction by distance-dependent weighting - Google Patents
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- G01T1/16—Measuring radiation intensity
- G01T1/161—Applications in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting
- G01T1/164—Scintigraphy
- G01T1/1641—Static instruments for imaging the distribution of radioactivity in one or two dimensions using one or several scintillating elements; Radio-isotope cameras
- G01T1/1647—Processing of scintigraphic data
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- A61B6/02—Devices for diagnosis sequentially in different planes; Stereoscopic radiation diagnosis
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