Evaluation of static physics performance of the jPET-D4 by Monte Carlo simulations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 213-230

  Hasegawa, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Yoshida, Eiji ^b   Kobayashi, Ayako ^c   Shibuya, Kengo ^b   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^b   Kobayashi, Tetsuya ^d   Suga, Mikio ^d   Yamaya, Taiga ^b   Kitamura, Keishi ^e   Maruyama, Koichi ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION (DOI); ENERGY SPECTRA; STATIC PHYSICS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34247200179     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/1/014     Document Type: Article

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