introduction: image quality and accuracy of in vivo activity quantification in spect are affected by collimator penetration and scatter components, especially in high energy imaging. these phenomena highly depend on the collimator characteristic and photon energy. the presence of penetrated and scattered photons from collimator in spect images degrades spatial resolution, contrast and image qua...

Introduction: Scatter radiation is one of the major sources of error in nuclear medicine data processing. Different methods of scatter correction have been introduced in order to improve the quality of data. However the best method is to avoid recording of scatter photons in acquisition. The only difference between scattered and non-scattered photons is the energy. Pulse height analyzer i...

Introduction: In nuclear medicine imaging, detection of the scattered photons along with the primary photons is one of the major problems that can lead to a decrease in ddiagnostic accuracy. Therefore, use of a suitable scatter correction method can help to improve of the image quality and increase of diagnostic accuracy. The aim of this study is evaluation of five energy wind...

interpolation, the generalization of point data to scatter data, and combining maps are three cases of important applications of gis. in this study, it has been tried to make the estimation of rain erosion capacity (fournier method) more real through using gis capability in interpolation and the generalization of point data to scatter data. in fournier method, the rain erosion capacity is calcu...

1. Introduction 1. Introduction Information on mass transport in polycrystalline zeolite membranes is necessary for a theoretical estimation of the membrane performances. Zeolite membranes are usually prepared as thin layer of an assembly of small zeolite crystals including many intercrystalline regions. Thus, the intercrystal region would influence their individual diffusion properties, which ...

Scatter correction is crucial to the quality of reconstructed images in x-ray cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Most of existing scatter correction methods assume smooth scatter distributions. The high-frequency scatter noise remains in the projection images even after a perfect scatter correction. In this paper, using a clinical CBCT system and a measurement-based scatter correction, the a...