Improving spatial resolution in SPECT with the combination of PSPMT based detector and iterative reconstruction algorithms

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 307-313

  Loudos, G K ^a   Nikita, K S ^a   Uzunoglo, N K ^a   Giokaris, N D ^b,c   Papanicolas, C N ^b,c   Archimandritis, S C ^d   Varvarigou, D ^d   Maintas, D ^e  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^e Institute of Isotopic Studies   (Greece)

Author keywords

Iterative algorithms; Position sensitive photomultiplier tube; Spatial resolution; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037410868     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00080-0     Document Type: Article

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