PET-SORTEO: A Monte Carlo-based simulator with high count rate capabilities

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 46-52

  Reilhac, Anthonin ^a   Lartizien, Carole ^b   Costes, Nicolas ^b   Sans, Sylvain ^b   Comtat, Claude ^c   Gunn, Roger N ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Biomedical Cyclotron   (France)

^c SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

Count rate performances; Deadtime; Monte Carlo simulations; Positron emission tomography; Randoms; Singles rate

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS;

COUNT-RATE PERFORMANCES; DEADTIME; RANDOMS; SINGLE RATES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342462955     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823011     Document Type: Article

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