Acceleration of SimSET Photon History Generation

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1835-1838

  Harrison, Robert L ^a   Dhavala, Somasekhar ^b   Kumar, Prasanth N ^b   Shao, Yiping ^c   Manjeshwar, Ravindra ^c   Lewellen, Tom K ^a   Jansen, Floris P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PHOTON HISTORY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142240442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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