Fast GATE fan beam SPECT projector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4188-4191

  De Beenhouwer, Jan ^a   Pieters, Bart ^b   Van De Walle, Rik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COLLIMATOR-DETECTOR RESPONSE; FAN BEAM COLLIMATOR; FIELD OF VIEWS; FORCED DETECTION; GPU-ACCELERATED; LOW ENERGY HIGH RESOLUTIONS; PARALLEL BEAM COLLIMATION; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84858641302     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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