Cardiac single-photon emission-computed tomography using combined cone-beam/fan-beam collimation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 143-153

  Gullberg, Grant T ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cardiac; Convergent collimation; Iterative image reconstruction; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CAMERAS; CARDIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS;

CARDIAC; CONVERGENT COLLIMATION; INTERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 17644364390     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.843118     Document Type: Article

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