On-axis sensitivity and resolution of a slit-slat collimator

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1884-1890

  Metzler, Scott D ^a   Accorsi, Roberto ^b   Novak, John R ^a   Ayan, Ahmet S ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator; Fan beam; Instrumentation; Parallel beam; Pinhole; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34247196834     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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