Helical-path, half-cone-beam acquisition for SPECT brain imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1837-1841

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

^a IEEE

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

AXIAL DISTORTION; BRAIN IMAGING; CIRCULAR ORBITS; HELICAL PATHS (HP); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 38649112976     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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