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Cardiac single-photon emission tomography: Is attenuation correction enough?

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Hutton, B.F. Cardiac single-photon emission tomography: Is attenuation correction enough?. Eur J Nucl Med 24, 713–715 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00879656

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