Reconstruction of two- and three-dimensional images from synthetic-collimator data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 412-422

  Wilson, D W ^a   Barrett, H H ^a   Clarkson, E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE DETECTOR; HIGH RESOLUTION PARALLEL BEAM COLLIMATOR; HIGH SENSITIVITY COLLIMATOR; PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC COLLIMATORS; ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION PARALLEL BEAM COLLIMATOR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034178284     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870252     Document Type: Article

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