High-resolution 125i small animal imaging with a coded aperture and a hybrid pixel detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 481-490

  Accorsi, Roberto ^b   Celentano, Luigi ^c   Laccetti, Paolo ^c   Lanza, Richard C ^a,d   Marotta, Marcello ^c   Mettivier, Giovanni ^c,e   Montesi, Maria Cristina ^c,e   Roberti, Giuseppe ^c   Russo, Paolo ^a,c,e  

^a IEEE

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Monte Carlo; PEM; Pinhole; Positron emission mammography; SPECT instrumentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; SPECT INSTRUMENTATION;

RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 39049168634     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.909846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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