Optimizing multi-pinhole SPECT geometries using an analytical model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2567-2581

  Rentmeester, M C M ^a   Van Der Have, F ^a   Beekman, F J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DETECTORS;

RADIO MOLECULE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT SYSTEMS; SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34249066778     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/9/016     Document Type: Article

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