Monte Carlo simulations of compact gamma cameras based on avalanche photodiodes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3057-3074

  Després, Philippe ^a   Funk, Tobias ^a   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

COMPACT GAMMA CAMERAS; ENERGY RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

IODINE 125; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34249026703     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/11/009     Document Type: Article

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