Detector blurring and detector sensitivity compensation for a spinning slat collimator

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2628-2634

  Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical image reconstruction algorithm; Frequency distance relation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; FREQUENCY-DISTANCE RELATION; SPECT;

DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTODETECTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33750393483     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.882574     Document Type: Article

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