Verification of the sensitivity and resolution dependence on the incidence angle for slit-slat collimation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 953-966

  Novak, J R ^a   Ayan, A S ^a   Accorsi, R ^a,b   Metzler, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VERIFICATION;

INCIDENCE ANGLE; MEDIUM-SIZED ANIMALS; SLIT-SLAT COLLIMATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 39049163745     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/4/009     Document Type: Article

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