Performance of a novel collimator for high-sensitivity brain SPECT

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 209-215

  El Fakhri, Georges ^a   Ouyang, Jinsong ^a   Zimmerman, Robert E ^a   Fischman, Alan J ^b   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection SNR; Estimation; High sensitivity brain SPECT; Variable focusing collimator

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATCHED FILTERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPHERES;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; BRAIN SPECT; DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; DETECTION SNR; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; SINGLE PHOTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; VARIABLE FOCUSING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

EID: 31044433062     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2143140     Document Type: Article

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