Cardiac imaging using a four-segment slant-hole collimator

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2619-2627

  Bal, G ^b   DiBella, E V R ^a,c   Gullberg, G T ^a,d   Zeng, G L ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; SPECT; Three dimensional (3 D)

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; PHOTODETECTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CARDIAC IMAGING; SPECT; TOTAL SCAN TIME; VOLUME OF INTEREST (VOI);

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 33750424310     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.877152     Document Type: Article

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