Geometrical importance sampling and pulse height tallies in GATE

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1349-1352

  De Beenhouwer, J ^a   Staelens, S ^a   Dressel, M ^b   D'Asseler, Y ^a   Vandenberghe, S ^a   Lemahieu, I ^a   Van De Walle, R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gate; Pulse height tally; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTONS;

GAMMA PHOTONS; PULSE HEIGHT TALLY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); VARIANCE REDUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 11144273226     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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