Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration

SD Metzler, JE Bowsher, MF Smith… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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" …

Accurate dosimetry in 131I radionuclide therapy using patient-specific, 3-dimensional methods for SPECT reconstruction and absorbed dose calculation

YK Dewaraja, SJ Wilderman, M Ljungberg… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2005 - Soc Nuclear Med
131I radionuclide therapy studies have not shown a strong relationship between tumor
absorbed dose and response, possibly due to inaccuracies in activity quantification and …

Analytic determination of the resolution-equivalent effective diameter of a pinhole collimator

R Accorsi, SD Metzler - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To account for photon penetration, the formulas used to calculate the geometric resolution of
a pinhole collimator use an equivalent diameter d/sub e/rather than the physical diameter of …

Characterization of pinhole SPECT acquisition geometry

D Beque, J Nuyts, G Bormans… - IEEE transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method is presented to estimate the acquisition geometry of a pinhole single photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT) camera with a circular detector orbit. This …

A Monte Carlo and physical phantom evaluation of quantitative In-111 SPECT

B He, Y Du, X Song, WP Segars… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate estimation of the 3D in vivo activity distribution is important for dose estimation in
targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT). Although SPECT can potentially provide such …

Chemically exfoliated WS2 nanosheets efficiently inhibit amyloid β-peptide aggregation and can be used for photothermal treatment of Alzheimer's disease

M Li, A Zhao, K Dong, W Li, J Ren, X Qu - Nano Research, 2015 - Springer
Polymerization of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) into amyloid fibrils is a critical step in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Inhibition of Aβ aggregation and destabilization …

Analytic determination of the pinhole collimator's point-spread function and RMS resolution with penetration

SD Metzler, JE Bowsher, KL Greer… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pinhole collimators are widely used to image small organs and animals. The pinhole
response function (PRF) of knife-edge pinhole collimators has been estimated previously …

Clinical assessment of 177Lu-DOTATATE quantification by comparison of SUV-based parameters measured on both post-PRRT SPECT/CT and 68Ga-DOTATOC …

P Thuillier, M Maajem, U Schick… - Clinical nuclear …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Results Ten patients (8 female; 2 male) aged from 50 to 83 years presenting with a
metastatic progressive WD-GEP-NET (7 small intestine, 2 pancreas, 1 rectum) were …

The effect of gamma ray penetration on angle‐dependent sensitivity for pinhole collimation in nuclear medicine

MF Smith, RJ Jaszczak - Medical Physics, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The sensitivity of a pinhole collimator for gamma ray imaging in nuclear medicine is
dependent on the angle of incidence of the gamma rays. The effect of penetration near the …

Helical pinhole SPECT for small-animal imaging: a method for addressing sampling completeness

SD Metzler, KL Greer… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pinhole collimators are widely used to image small organs and small animals because
sensitivity and resolution improve as the distance between the aperture and the object …