Simultaneous spect and ct with an opposed dual head gamma camera system and conventional parallel hole collimators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2239-2243

  Kimiaei, S ^a   Larsson, S A ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DESIGN; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTODETECTORS;

FIELD OF VIEW; GAMMA CAMERA SYSTEMS; PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATORS; SHADOWING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030211551     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.531888     Document Type: Article

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