Monte Carlo simulations of pinhole imaging accelerated by kernel-based forced detection

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1853-1867

  Gieles, Mark ^a   de Jong, Hugo W A M ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTONS;

PINHOLE IMAGING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037035847     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/11/302     Document Type: Article

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