An analytical algorithm for skew-slit collimator SPECT with uniform attenuation correction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6199-6211

  Tang, Qiulin ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b   Huang, Qiu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

CONVENTIONAL PINHOLES; NOVIKOV TYPE ALGORITHMS; SKEW SLIT COLLIMATORS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846877424     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/23/018     Document Type: Article

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