Realistic Monte Carlo PET simulation with pixellated block detectors, light sharing and randoms modeling

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1563-1567

  Guerin B ^b,c   El Fakhri, G ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; BLOCK DETECTORS; LIGHT-SHARING; PHOTON TRANSPORT;

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846616724     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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