Survey of parallel slat collimator designs for hybrid PET imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Rust, T C ^a,b   Kadrmas, D J ^a,b  

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

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS;

IMAGING GEOMETRY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

WATER;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0037459552     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/6/402     Document Type: Article

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