Optimizing Compton camera geometries

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1387-1408

  Chelikani, Sudhakar ^a   Gore, John ^b   Zubal, George ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

CAMERA GEOMETRY; COMPTON CAMERAS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

FLUORINE 18; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; SODIUM IODIDE; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM; WATER;

EID: 2342477141     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/8/002     Document Type: Article

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