Sensitivity of SPECT with rotating slat collimators

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2914-2918

  Vandenberghe, S ^a   Staelens, S ^a   Koole, M ^a   Lemahieu, I ^a   Van De Walle, R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Planar collimation; Sensitivity; Solid state detectors; SPECT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

FOV; PLANAR COLLIMATION; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; SPECT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844304115     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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