The potential for mixed multiplexed and non-multiplexed data to improve the reconstruction quality of a multi-slit-slat collimator SPECT system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2247-2268

  Mahmood, Shelan T ^a   Erlandsson, Kjell ^a   Cullum, Ian ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; NOISE LEVELS; NONUNIQUENESS; PATIENT DOSE; PROJECTION DATA; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; SLAT COLLIMATORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT SYSTEM; SYSTEM RESOLUTION;

IMAGE QUALITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; METAL RECOVERY; REPAIR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MULTIPLEXING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77950560607     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/8/009     Document Type: Article

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