Analytical versus voxelized phantom representation for Monte Carlo simulation in radiological imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 556-564

  Peter, Jörg ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING; RAY SOLID INTERSECTION ALGORITHMS; VOXELIZED PHANTOM REPRESENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESEARCH; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RESEARCH; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034178290     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870266     Document Type: Article

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