Design of multipinhole collimators for small animal SPECT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2291-2295

  Smith, Mark F ^a   Meikle, Steven R ^b   Majewski, Stan ^a   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPLEXING; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

MULTIPINHOLE COLLIMATORS; PINHOLE MASKS; PROJECTION DATA MULTIPLEXING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOPRAPHY;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 11844259446     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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