Simultaneous multi-head calibration for pinhole SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-120

  Metzler, S D ^a,b   Jaszczak, R J ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Instrumentation; Pinhole; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal; SPECT

Indexed keywords

PINHOLE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHYSINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL ANIMAL;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEOMETRY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645671875     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.862978     Document Type: Article

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