Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medical imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 574-608

  Zaidi, Habib ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Detectors; Monte Carlo simulations; PET; Scatter; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING FACILITIES; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIATION EMISSIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SPECT;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032916211     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598559     Document Type: Review

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