Fast hybrid SPECT simulation including efficient septal penetration modelling (SP-PSF)

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3027-3043

  Staelens, Steven ^a,b   De Wit, Tim ^a,c   Beekman, Freek ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COLLIMATOR SEPTA; FAST OBJECT SCATTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SOFTWARE; SEPTAL PENETRATING (SP) PHOTONS;

THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

INDIUM 111; IODINE 123; THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34249063950     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/11/007     Document Type: Article

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