Design and performance of a multi-pinhole collimation device for small animal imaging with clinical SPECT and SPECT-CT scanners

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4185-4201

  DiFilippo, Frank P ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUNGSTEN;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CT IMAGING; FIELD OF VIEWS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IMAGE CO-REGISTRATION; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; ORDERED-SUBSETS; PHANTOM IMAGES; PINHOLE COLLIMATION; POINT SOURCES; SMALL ANIMALS; SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SPECT IMAGING; SPECT-CT; SYSTEM GEOMETRY;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48349109966     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/15/012     Document Type: Article

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