Derivation and validation of a sensitivity formula for slit-slat collimation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 709-722

  Accorsi, Roberto ^b   Novak, John R ^b   Ayan, Ahmet S ^b   Metzler, Scott D ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications of nuclear radiation; Collimation; Nuclear imaging; Penetration; Pinhole; Sensitivity; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Slat; Slit

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR RADIATION; PENETRATION; PINHOLE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 43049183226     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.912395     Document Type: Article

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