SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING
A collimator for a nuclear medical imaging process includes a cylinder or arc that is opaque to emissions from a subject arranged within an interior space. The system also includes a plurality of pin-hole collimators arranged about the cylinder or arc to permit emissions from the subject to reach a detector arranged at the exterior of the cylinder or arc, which divide the collimator into a plurality of segments. The cylinder or arc includes holes extending in one of in parallel or divergent to one another along each respective segment in the plurality of segments to permit emissions from the subject to reach the detector. The detector may include multiple segments, each configured to occupy part of an exit side of a pin-hole collimator. The detector may move relative to the pin-hole collimator to vary a pin-hole view of an imaging object at each detector position.