The effects of object activity distribution on multiplexing multi-pinhole SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2635-2650

  Mok, Greta S P ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b   Beekman, Freek J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d MILabs   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; COLLIMATOR DESIGNS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; IMAGE DEGRADATION; NORMALIZED MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RESOLUTION RECOVERY; SIGNAL-TO-BACKGROUND RATIO; SPARSE DISTRIBUTION;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79953728743     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/8/019     Document Type: Article

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