Brain SPECT with short focal-length cone-beam collimation

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2236-2244

  Park, Mi Ae ^a   Moore, Stephen C ^a   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; LOCATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CONE-BEAM COLLIMATORS; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; INCREASING SENSITIVITIES; PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATORS; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; SHORT FOCAL LENGTHS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLLIMATOR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 22544476189     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1929208     Document Type: Article

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