Scatter simulation including double scatter

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1615-1619

  Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^a,b   Aguiar, Pablo ^c   Ros, Domenec ^c   Dikaios, Nikolaos ^d   Thielemans, Kris ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compton scatter; PET; SSS; STIR

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTER; DOUBLE SCATTER DISTRIBUTION; SCATTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846632682     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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