Components of the flood-field uniformity index in a gamma camera

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1209-1216

  Tenhunen, M ^a   Pyykkonen J ^a   Tenhunen Eskelinen, M ^b   Jaatinen, K ^b   Kuikka, J T ^b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

TECHNETIUM;

GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029662196     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/7/009     Document Type: Article

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