Evaluation of a multi-pinhole collimator for imaging small animals with different sizes

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-69

  Mok, Greta S P ^a   Yu, Jianhua ^b   Du, Yong ^b   Wang, Yuchuan ^c   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi pinhole; Multiplexing; Single pinhole; Small animal imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; RAT; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84861478488     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-011-0472-8     Document Type: Article

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