Resolution-effective diameters for asymmetric-knife-edge pinhole collimators

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1637-1646

  Accorsi, Roberto ^b   Metzler, Scott D ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator; Image resolution; Photon penetration; Pinhole; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IMAGING RESOLUTION; PHOTON PENETRATION; PINHOLE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 29144514749     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.857229     Document Type: Article

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