Single and multipinhole collimator design evaluation method for small animal SPECT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2223-2227

  Vunckx, Kathleen ^a   Bequé, Dirk ^a,b   Defrise, Michel ^c   Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GE Global Research Europe   (Germany)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CIRCULAR ACQUISITION ORBIT; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; GHOST POINTS; LINEARIZED LOCAL IMPULSE RESPONSE (LLIR);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33746910667     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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