Optimizing Pinhole and Parallel Hole Collimation for Scintimammography with Compact Pixellated Detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 321-326

  Smith, Mark F ^a   Majewski, Stan ^a   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator; collimator optimization; parallel hole collimator; pinhole collimator; pixellated detector; scintimammography

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

CRYSTAL DETECTORS; OBJECT RESOLUTION; PINHOLE COLLIMATION; SCINTIMMAMMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 0038382239     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812436     Document Type: Article

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