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Computational Algorithms in Small-Animal Imaging

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Small-Animal Spect Imaging

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High-resolution small-animal imaging has seen recent advances on a number of fronts, with significant improvements coming in areas of detector technology, electronics, and collimation. Perhaps less recognized have been the accompanying software developments which have facilitated these hardware gains, including new algorithms that allow for better camera resolution, algorithms for faster reconstruction, algorithms for reconstructing data collected from irregular geometries, and modeling algorithms to improve reconstruction and to facilitate system design.

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Wilson, D.W. (2005). Computational Algorithms in Small-Animal Imaging. In: Kupinski, M.A., Barrett, H.H. (eds) Small-Animal Spect Imaging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25294-0_7

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