Front-illuminated versus back-illuminated photon-counting CCD-based gamma camera: Important consequences for spatial resolution and energy resolution

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Heemskerk, Jan W T ^a,b   Westra, Albert H ^c   Linotte, Peter M ^a,b   Ligtvoet, Kees M ^c   Zbijewski, Wojciech ^a,b   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION;

ENERGY RESOLUTION; GAMMA CAMERAS; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CCD CAMERAS;

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHTING; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34147186635     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/N01     Document Type: Article

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