System performance simulations of the RatCAP awake rat brain scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1305-1310

  Shokouhi, Sepideh ^a,b   Vaska, Paul ^b,c   Schlyer, David J ^b,c   Stoll, Scan P ^b,c   Villanueva Jr , Azael ^b   Kriplani, Aarti ^b   Woody, Craig L ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

SimSET; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR GEOMETRY; PARALLAX GEOMETRY; SIMSET; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 29144440946     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858236     Document Type: Article

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