Combination of converging collimators for high-sensitivity brain SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1548-1556

  Ter Antonyan, Ruben ^a,d   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b   Greer, Kim L ^a   Bowsher, James E ^a   Metzler, Scott D ^c   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain SPECT; Circle and helix; Combined collimation; Half cone beam; Triple camera

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 69449089078     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.062653     Document Type: Article

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