Development and Validation of a Monte Carlo Simulation of Photon Transport in an Anger Camera

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 430-438

  de Vries, Daniel J ^a   Moore, Stephen C ^a   Zimmerman, Robert E ^b   Friedland, Bernard ^b   Mueller, Stefan P ^c   Lanza, Richard C ^d  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Abt Strahlentherapie Nuklearmed   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS - MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE - MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS - TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANGER CAMERA; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PHOTON TRANSPORT;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0025627308     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.61758     Document Type: Article

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