Investigation of 90° dual-camera half-fanbeam collimation for myocardial SPECT imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6 PART 3, 1999, Pages 2085-2092

  Lacroix, Karen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; HALF FANBEAM COLLIMATION; MYOCARDIAL IMAGING; RADII OF ROTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SINOGRAMS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 0033332077     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.819286     Document Type: Article

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