Performance evaluation of D-SPECT: A novel SPECT system for nuclear cardiology

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2635-2649

  Erlandsson, Kjell ^a   Kacperski, Krzysztof ^a   Van Gramberg, Dean ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; COUNT RATES; CZT DETECTORS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; INTRINSIC RESOLUTION; NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFUSION STUDIES; PIXEL SIZE; RADIONUCLIDE STUDIES; RESOLUTION RECOVERY; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHIC;

RADIOISOTOPES;

TECHNETIUM;

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; HEART RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CARDIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARDIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 67649891804     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/003     Document Type: Article

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