Geometrical response of multihole collimators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3359-3379

  Formiconi, Andreas Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORY;

BIOPHYSICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031741260     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/11/013     Document Type: Article

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