A channelized-hotelling-trace collimator design method based on reconstruction rather than projections

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2155-2158

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

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

Author keywords

Collimator; Hotelling trace; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOACTIVITY;

HOTELLING TRACE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036816186     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803775     Document Type: Article

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