Small animal imaging by single photon emission using pinhole and coded aperture collimation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 573-579

  Garibaldi, F ^a   Accorsi, R ^b   Cinti, M N ^c   Cisbani, E ^a   Colilli, S ^a   Cusanno, F ^a   De Vincentis, G ^c   Fortuna, A ^a   Fratoni, R ^a   Girolami, B ^a   Ghio, F ^a   Giuliani, F ^a   Gricia, M ^a   Lanza, R ^d   Loizzo, A ^a   Loizzo, S ^a   Lucentini, M ^a   Majewski, S ^e   Santavenere, F ^a   Pani, R ^c   Pellegrini, R ^c   Signore, A ^c   Scopinaro, F ^c   Veneroni, P ^a   more..

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear imaging; Scintillation detectors; Sensitivity; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBODIES; IRRADIATION; MICROORGANISMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); NUCLEAR IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 23844496429     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.851428     Document Type: Article

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