Design of a novel pinhole collimator system for SPECT imaging of small animals with different sizes

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2649-2652

  Mok, Seng Peng ^a,b   Wang, Yuchuan ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

MicroSPECT; Monte Carlo simulation; Multi pinhole; Single pinhole; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

MICROSPECT; MULTI-PINHOLE; SINGLE PINHOLE; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

CAMERAS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 33748928158     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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