Brain SPECT simulation using half-cone-beam collimation and single-revolution helical-path acquisition

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 475-479

  Ter Antonyan, Ruben ^a,b   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b   Bowsher, James E ^a,b   Greer, Kim L ^b   Metzler, Scott D ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam; Half cone beam; Helical path; Sampling sufficiency; SPECT; Triple camera

Indexed keywords

BEAM COLLIMATION; BRAIN SPECT IMAGING; CIRCULAR-ORBIT ACQUISITION; OBJECT TRUNCATION;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 34250711202     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.897826     Document Type: Article

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