A multipinhole small animal SPECT system with submillimeter spatial resolution

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1259-1268

  Funk, Tobias ^a   Després, Philippe ^a   Barber, William C ^a   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

Author keywords

Multipinhole collimator; Pinhole imaging; Position sensitive avalanche photodiode; Radionuclide imaging; Small animal imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; CESIUM IODIDE; EFFICIENCY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

MULTI-PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; PINHOLE IMAGING; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPECT;

MOLECULAR IMAGING;

CESIUM ION; THALLIUM;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTILLATION; SCINTISCANNING; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646448140     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2190332     Document Type: Article

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