Monte Carlo simulation and scatter correction of the GE Advance PET scanner with SimSET and Geant4

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4823-4840

  Barret, Olivier ^a   Carpenter, T Adrian ^a   Clark, John C ^a   Ansorge, Richard E ^b   Fryer, Tim D ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PET SCANNER; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER FRACTION; VOXEL-BASED GEOMETRIES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 26244447702     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/20/006     Document Type: Article

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