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[Testing performance of the improved pinhole collimator and its application to small animals]
1Department of Dental Radiology, Higashi-Nippon-Gakuen University School of Dentistry, Hokkaido, Japan.
Abstract:
Testing performance of the improved pinhole collimator of 1.5 mm aperture attached to the gamma camera was carried out with three kinds of radionuclides, 99mTc, 67Ga and 131I, using a hand-made phantom. The results obtained in this experiment were compared to those obtained with a human pinhole collimator of 4 mm aperture. Those were nearly understood by taking account of the effective aperture of a pinhole collimator for each effective photon energy. And all scintigrams obtained from rats with various scintigraphy showed high resolution images.