DocumentCode
2612298
Title
Slat collimated multipinhole human brain SPECT
Author
De Smet, Jelle ; Van Holen, Roel ; Staelens, S. ; Vandenberghe, S. ; Lemahieu, I.
Author_Institution
Department of Electronics and Information Systems, MEDISIP, Ghent University-IBBT-IBiTech, Belgium
fYear
2008
fDate
19-25 Oct. 2008
Firstpage
4034
Lastpage
4035
Abstract
A new brain SPECT system based on multipinhole collimation has been designed and the properties have been studied with Monte Carlo simulations. Results show the system has better resolution and acceptable sensitivity compared to commercial SPECT systems.
Keywords
Animals; Brain modeling; Collimators; Detectors; Energy resolution; Humans; Image reconstruction; Imaging phantoms; Positron emission tomography; Spatial resolution;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location
Dresden, Germany
ISSN
1095-7863
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN
1095-7863
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774169
Filename
4774169
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