The effect of intrinsic spatial resolution on the quantitative accuracy of SPECT Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1009-1015

  Glick, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CRYSTALS; FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTONS;

CRAMER-RAO BOUND; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033311417     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.790813     Document Type: Article

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