A method for Monte Carlo simulation of a gated SPECT cardiac blood pool studies is presented. The method more accurately captures the complex structure of time-varying in vivo distributions of radiolabeled blood cells than is possible with a physical phantom. The projected utility of this method is the quantitative evaluation of manual, semi-automated, and automated methods for assessing cardiac function
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Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record
(Volume:4
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Date of Conference: 30 Oct-5 Nov 1994