Collimator optimization for detection and quantitation tasks: Application to gallium-67 imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1347-1356

  Moore, Stephen C ^a,b   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^a,b   El Fakhri, Georges ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator; Detection; Estimation; Ga 67; Scintigraphy; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DETECTION; GA-67; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPECT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GALLIUM; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CITRIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM; GALLIUM CITRATE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CITRATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 26844547886     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.857211     Document Type: Article

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