SPECT imaging of high energy isotopes and isotopes with high energy contaminants with rotating slat collimators

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4257-4267

  Van Holen, Roel ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collimator; High energy isotopes; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COLLIMATOR; CONTRAST IMPROVEMENTS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; HIGH-ENERGY CONTAMINATION; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATORS; ROTATING SLAT COLLIMATORS; SPECT;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 69549118507     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3177312     Document Type: Article

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