Simultaneous SPECT and CT with Shutter Controlled Radionuclide Sources and Parallel Collimator Geometry

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1117-1122

  Larsson, S A ^a   Kimiaei, S ^a   Ribbe, T ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

RADIONUCLIDES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027644526     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.256721     Document Type: Article

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