Coherent scatter implementation for simset

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 2, 1998, Pages 3064-3068

  Kaplan, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; TISSUE;

COMPTON SCATTERING; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032316429     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.737665     Document Type: Article

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