Advances in preclinical SPECT instrumentation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 841-844

  Peterson, Todd E ^a,b   Shokouhi, Sepideh ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi pinhole collimation; Preclinical imaging; Semiconductor detectors; SPECT; Synthetic collimator

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84861863116     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.099853     Document Type: Review

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