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Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Metzler, SD; Bowsher, JE; Smith, MF; Jaszczak, RJ
Published in: IEEE Trans Med Imaging
August 2001

Pinhole collimators are widely used to image small organs and animals. The sensitivity of knife-edge pinhole collimators has been previously estimated using an "effective diameter" formulation and experimentally described using a sin(x) theta fit, where theta is the angle between the line segment from the center of the aperture to the photon source and its projection onto the plane of the aperture. An analytic form of the sensitivity of the pinhole collimator is derived in this paper. A numerical formula for predicting the sin(x) theta form of the sensitivity is calculated from the analytic form. Experimental data are compared with the theoretical estimate and the sin(x) theta prediction. The agreement is excellent.

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Published In

IEEE Trans Med Imaging

DOI

ISSN

0278-0062

Publication Date

August 2001

Volume

20

Issue

8

Start / End Page

730 / 741

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • 46 Information and computing sciences
  • 40 Engineering
  • 09 Engineering
  • 08 Information and Computing Sciences
 

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Metzler, S. D., Bowsher, J. E., Smith, M. F., & Jaszczak, R. J. (2001). Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 20(8), 730–741. https://doi.org/10.1109/42.938241
Metzler, S. D., J. E. Bowsher, M. F. Smith, and R. J. Jaszczak. “Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration.IEEE Trans Med Imaging 20, no. 8 (August 2001): 730–41. https://doi.org/10.1109/42.938241.
Metzler SD, Bowsher JE, Smith MF, Jaszczak RJ. Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2001 Aug;20(8):730–41.
Metzler, S. D., et al. “Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration.IEEE Trans Med Imaging, vol. 20, no. 8, Aug. 2001, pp. 730–41. Pubmed, doi:10.1109/42.938241.
Metzler SD, Bowsher JE, Smith MF, Jaszczak RJ. Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2001 Aug;20(8):730–741.

Published In

IEEE Trans Med Imaging

DOI

ISSN

0278-0062

Publication Date

August 2001

Volume

20

Issue

8

Start / End Page

730 / 741

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • 46 Information and computing sciences
  • 40 Engineering
  • 09 Engineering
  • 08 Information and Computing Sciences