Half-cone beam collimation for triple-camera SPECT systems

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 498-502

  Li, Jianying ^b   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a   Van Mullekom, Arnold ^b   Scarfone, Christopher ^b   Greer, Kim L ^b   Coleman, R Edward ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

brain imaging; half cone beam; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLLIMATOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029995034     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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