Validation of GATE Monte Carlo simulations of the GE Advance/Discovery LS PET scanners

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 198-208

  Schmidtlein, C Ross ^a   Kirov, Assen S ^a   Nehmen, Sadek A ^a   Erdi, Yusuf E ^a   Humm, John L ^a   Amols, Howard I ^a   Bidaut, Luc M ^a,b   Ganin, Alex ^c   Stearns, Charles W ^c   McDaniel, David L ^c   Hamacher, Klaus A ^d  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; SCANNING;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; COUNT RATE PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL CURVES; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSIONS; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURES ASSOCIATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 31044439395     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2089447     Document Type: Article

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