Monte Carlo simulation of energy spectra for 123I imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4409-4425

  Tanaka, Minoru ^a   Uehara, Shuzo ^b   Kojima, Akihiro ^c   Matsumoto, Masanori ^d  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION;

ENERGY SPECTRA; HEXAGON CODE; PHOTOPEAK; SODIUM IODIDE;

RADIOISOTOPES;

IODINE 123;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GAMMA SCINTIGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 34547114004     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/15/004     Document Type: Article

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