Experimental measurement of axial and transaxial resolutions of a slit-slat collimator and comparison to theoretical expectations

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1832-1836

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

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

GAMMA CAMERAS; PARALLEL BEAMS; POINT SOURCE DATA; TRANSAXIAL RESOLUTIONS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 38649142490     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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