A modular description for collimator geometry in EGS simulation tasks

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1303-1305

  Bevilacqua, Alessandro ^a   Bollini, Dante ^a   Campanini, Renato ^a   Gombia, Mirko ^a   Lanconelli, Nico ^a   Riccardi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EGS; Modular geometry; Monte Carlo; Nuclear medicine

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

COLLIMATOR GEOMETRY; EGS CODE; MODULAR DESCRIPTION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0035554662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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