Comparative evaluation of two commercial PET scanners, ECAT EXACT HR+ and Biograph 2, using GATE

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 569, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 368-372

  Karakatsanis, N ^a   Sakellios, N ^a   Tsantilas, N X ^b   Dikaios, N ^a   Tsoumpas, C ^d   Lazaro, D ^e   Loudos, G ^a   Schmidtlein, C R ^f   Louizi, K ^b   Valais, J ^c   Nikolopoulos, D ^b   Malamitsi, J ^b   Kandarakis, J ^c   Nikita, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^d HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biograph; GATE; HR+; Monte Carlo simulations; PET; Validation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BIOGRAPHS; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSION (GATE); HR+; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEMS; VALIDATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33751427519     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.110     Document Type: Article

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