Evaluation of image reconstruction for mouse brain imaging with synthetic collimation from highly multiplexed SiliSPECT projections

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5151-5168

  Shokouhi, S ^a   Wilson, D W ^b   Metzler, S D ^c   Peterson, T E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 78149338648     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/17/017     Document Type: Article

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