Abstract
It has now been over a decade since the idea of coded apertures as an alternative to conventional pinholes and collimators was first proposed in the nuclear medicine literature. During this period, many different codes and decoding algorithms have been studied. Several workers have carried out extensive experimental and theoretical investigations, and a few clinical trials have been performed. For a review, see Barrett and Swindell (1981) or Simpson and Barrett (1980). However, in spite of these efforts, coded-aperture imaging has not yet blossomed into a routine clinical tool. The method has been perhaps a scientific success, yielding new insights into the physics and mathematics of radiological imaging, but so far it has been a practical failure.
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Barrett, H.H. et al. (1984). New Directions in Coded-Aperture Imaging. In: Deconinck, F. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6045-9_7
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