Performance evaluation of A-SPECT: A high resolution desktop pinhole SPECT system for imaging small animals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2139-2147

  McElroy, David P ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^b   Beekman, Freek J ^c   Wang, Yuchuan ^d   Patt, Bradley E ^b   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^d   Hoffman, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Photon Imaging Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal imaging; Pin hole collimation; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Three dimensional (3 D) image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; ELECTRON EMISSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANIMAL IMAGING; PIN HOLE COLLIMATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036815779     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803801     Document Type: Article

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