Body contour 180° pinhole SPET with or without tilted detector: A phantom study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1205-1210

  Seret, Alain ^a   Flérès, David ^a   Firket, Olivier ^b   Defrise, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body contour; OSEM; Pinhole; Pinhole SPET; SPET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAMERA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0141782350     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-003-1213-2     Document Type: Article

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