Monte Carlo simulations in SPET and PET

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 48-61

  Buvat, I ^a   Castiglioni, I ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo method; Tomography, emission computed; Tomography, emission computed, single photon

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH DERIVATIVE; BISMUTH GERMANATE; IODINE 131; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPERIMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCESS DESIGN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036071435     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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