The Use of Importance Sampling Techniques to Improve the Efficiency of Photon Tracking in Emission Tomography Simulations

Medical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 990-1001

  Haynor, David R ^a   Harrison, Robert L ^a   Lewellen, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MINICOMPUTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0025940237     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596615     Document Type: Article

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