Geometrical calibration and aperture configuration design in multi-pinhole spect

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1403-1406

  Vunckx, K ^a   Defrise, M ^b   Beque D ^c   Vanhove, C ^b   Andreyev, A ^b   Nuyts, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; MicroSPECT; Multiplexing; Pinhole SPECT; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

MICROSPECT; MULTIPLEXING; PINHOLE SPECT; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 51049113804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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