Validation of a Monte Carlo simulation of the Philips Allegro/GEMINI PET systems using GATE

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 943-962

  Lamare, F ^a   Turzo, A ^a   Bizais, Y ^a   Rest, C Cheze Le ^a   Visvikis, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL PET SYSTEMS; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSION; IMAGING CONDITIONS; PHILIPS ALLEGRO/GEMINI PET SYSTEMS USING GATE;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTRAST; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTATION; FIELD EMISSION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHOLE BODY COUNTER;

EID: 33645284910     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/4/013     Document Type: Article

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