Evaluation of the single scatter simulation algorithm implemented in the STIR library

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3361-3365

  Tsoumpas, C ^a,b   Aguiar, P ^c   Nikita, K S ^b   Ros, D ^c   Thielemans, K ^a  

^a Hammersmith Imanet   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EMITTED PHOTONS; SINGLE SCATTER SIMULATION; SOFTWARE FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION (STIR); TRANSMISSION IMAGE;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 23844506898     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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