Astigmatic single photon emission computed tomography imaging with a displaced center of rotation

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1493-1501

  Wang, Huili ^a,b   Smith, Mark F ^a,c   Stone, Craig D ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Globalstar   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Astigmatic collimation; Converging beam collimation; Single photon emission computed tomography; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; ROTATION;

ACCURACY OF PARAMETERS; ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; ASTIGMATIC COLLIMATION; BEAM COLLIMATION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION FORMULAS; SPECT;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031816946     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598325     Document Type: Article

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