High resolution 125 I pinhole SPECT imaging of the mouse thyroid with the MediSPECT small animal CdTe scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1029-1037

  Mettivier, Giovanni ^a   Montesi, Maria Cristina ^a   Curion, Assunta Simona ^a   Lauria, Adele ^a   Marotta, Marcello ^a   Russo, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDTE; CDTE SEMICONDUCTOR; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FINE PITCH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION COLLIMATORS; HORIZONTAL AXIS; IMAGING TESTS; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO TESTS; ORDERED SUBSETS; PINHOLE SPECT; PLANAR IMAGING; PLANAR PROJECTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SMALL ANIMAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT IMAGES; STEP-AND-SHOOT; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM;

SCANNING;

EID: 77953709811     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2042815     Document Type: Article

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