Comparing planar image quality of rotating slat and parallel hole collimation: Influence of system modeling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1989-2002

  Van Holen, Roel ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATION; PHOTON COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; ROTATING SLAT (RS);

CAMERAS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; DEVICE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATING SLAT COLLIMATOR; ROTATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449114068     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/7/013     Document Type: Article

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