Performance of three-photon PET imaging: Monte Carlo simulations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5679-5695

  Kacperski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Spyrou, Nicholas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; THREE-GAMMA IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

EID: 28644449882     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/23/019     Document Type: Article

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