High-resolution tomography of positron emitters with clustered pinhole SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1265-1277

  Goorden, Marlies C ^a,b   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Molecular Imaging Laboratories   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; BRAIN PHANTOMS; EDGE PENETRATION; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HIGH-RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHY; LABELLED MOLECULES; OPENING ANGLE; PHOTON PENETRATION; PINHOLE SPECT; POSITRON EMITTERS; RESOLUTION IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMITTERS; SMALL-ANIMAL;

ELECTRONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; ISOTOPES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING PROCESS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NEOSTRIATUM; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; NEOPLASMS; NEOSTRIATUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 76849092593     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/5/001     Document Type: Article

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