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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dresden, Germany
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774169
