An analytic model of pinhole aperture penetration for 3D pinhole SPECT image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 761-775

  Smith, Mark F ^a,b,c   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODEL; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION PROTECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031961517     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/4/006     Document Type: Article

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