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Simple phantom for gamma camera spatial resolution objective measurement.

I Kostourkov
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Abstract

This paper presents a simply designed line source phantom for gamma camera spatial resolution measurement. It can be useful for the nuclear medicine departments where sophisticated spatial resolution measuring tools are not available; it can be used both in routine and in reference tests of gamma camera spatial resolution.

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I Kostourkov. 1999. Simple phantom for gamma camera spatial resolution objective measurement.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10462921/

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