The geometric response function for convergent slit-slat collimators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1469-1482

  Li, Yusheng ^a   Oldendick, James ^a   Ordonez, Caesar E ^a   Chang, Wei ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC RESPONSE; GEOMETRIC RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SLAT COLLIMATORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLIT SLAT COLLIMATOR;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 63649084394     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/6/006     Document Type: Article

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