System characteristics of SPECT with a slat collimated strip detector

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 391-405

  Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Van Holen, Roel ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTONS;

COLLIMATION SYSTEMS; FIELD OF VIEW (FOV);

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA CAMERAS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 32544447907     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/2/014     Document Type: Article

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