A prototype rotating slat collimator for single photon emission computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 500-511

  Lodge, Martin A ^a,b   Webb, Steve ^a,b   Flower, Maggie A ^a,b   Binnie, David M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATTENUATING PARALLEL SLATS; GAMMA CAMERA; GEOMETRIC EFFICIENCY; LOW ENERGY HIGH RESOLUTION PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATOR; RADON TRANSFORMS; ROTATING SLAT COLLIMATOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 0030215789     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.511753     Document Type: Article

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