Theoretical analysis of full-ring multi-pinhole brain SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6593-6610

  Goorden, M C ^a,b   Rentmeester, M C M ^a   Beekman, F J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Molecular Imaging Laboratories   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BRAIN SPECT; CONVENTIONAL DETECTORS; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; DUAL-HEAD; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; INTRINSIC RESOLUTION; LARGE DETECTORS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATORS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SPECT SYSTEM; SYSTEM RESOLUTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70449097650     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/21/010     Document Type: Article

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