Application of spherical harmonics to image reconstruction for the Compton camera

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 887-894

  Basko, Roman ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031981252     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/4/016     Document Type: Article

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