A new reconstruction strategy for image improvement in pinhole SPECT

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1166-1172

  Zeniya, Tsutomu ^a   Watabe, Hiroshi ^a   Aoi, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Kim, Kyeong Min ^a   Teramoto, Noboru ^a   Hayashi, Takuya ^a   Sohlberg, Antti ^c   Kudo, Hiroyuki ^d   Iida, Hidehiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D OSEM; Complete data; Pinhole SPECT; Small animal; Tuy's condition

Indexed keywords

OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOLIGAND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3943088457     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-004-1510-4     Document Type: Article

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