Comparison of penetration and scatter effects on defect contrast for GE and siemens LEHR collimators in myocardial perfusion SPECT - A simulation study

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1359-1364

  He, Xin ^a,b   Frey, E C ^a,b   Links, J M ^a,c   Song, X ^a,d   Tsui, B M W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator detector response; Collimator penetration

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATOR DETECTOR RESPONSE; COLLIMATOR RESPONSE; DEFECT CONTRAST; DETECTION EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 29144451010     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858224     Document Type: Article

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