Resolution- versus sensitivity-effective diameter in pinhole collimation: Experimental verification

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5005-5017

  Metzler, S D ^a   Accorsi, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTONS;

GEOMETRIC RESOLUTION; PHOTON PENETRATION; PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; POLAR ANGLE;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 27144520852     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/21/004     Document Type: Article

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