A publicly accessible Monte Carlo database for validation purposes in emission tomography

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1234-1239

  Castiglioni, I ^a   Buvat, I ^b   Rizzo, G ^a   Gilardi, M C ^a   Feuardent, J ^b   Fazio, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Emission tomography; Image reconstruction; Internet databases; Monte Carlo method; Scatter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 25144515920     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-1832-x     Document Type: Article

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