A prototype coded aperture detector for small animal SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2167-2171

  Meikle, Steven R ^a   Kench, Peter ^b   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^c   Wojcik, Randy ^c   Smith, Mark F ^c   Majewski, Stan ^c   Eberl, Stefan ^a   Fulton, Roger R ^a   Rosenfeld, Anatoly B ^d   Fulham, Michael J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coded aperature; Iterature reconstruction; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLEXING; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

CODED APERTURE DETECTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20244375211     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803802     Document Type: Article

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