Laser alignment system for helical pinhole SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 603-610

  Metzler, S D ^a   Greer, K L ^a   Bobkov, K ^a   Jaszczak, R J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Calibration; Pinhole; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Small animal

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PINHOLE; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SMALL ANIMAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3342941031     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829749     Document Type: Article

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