Non-diverging analytic expression for the on-axis sensitivity of converging collimators: Analytic derivation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5675-5696

  Accorsi, R ^a   Metzler, S D ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONVERGING COLLIMATORS; FOCAL LOCUS; LITERATURE EXPRESSIONS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33751175844     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/21/019     Document Type: Article

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