A public domain platform to model scintillation counters for gamma-ray imaging applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3115, Issue , 1997, Pages 21-29

  Moisan, C ^a   Hoskinson, E M ^a   Levin, A ^a   Vozza, D ^a  

^a TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

BUILDER; DETECT; Gamma ray and X ray detector modeling; Imaging detector performance simulation; Monte Carlo; Optical photon transport; Scintillation counter modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; READOUT SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL PHOTON TRANSPORT; X-RAY DETECTOR MODELING;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0031288751     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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