Cluster computing software for GATE simulations

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1926-1933

  De Beenhouwer, Jan ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Kruecker, Dirk ^b   Ferrer, Ludovic ^c   D'Asseler, Yves ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a   Rannou, Fernando R ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cluster; GATE; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; MACROS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCALABILITY;

CLUSTER; GATE; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSIONS; GEOMETRY AND TRACKING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SPECT;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34447341210     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2731993     Document Type: Article

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