Effect of Recoil Electron Range on Efficiency and on Spatial Resolution of Very High Resolution Animal PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1756-1759

  Park, S ^a   Rogers, W L ^a   Clinthorne, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal PET; Compton PET; EGS4; Monte Carlo simulation; Very high resolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0142147982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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