A GATE Monte Carlo simulation of the performance of a high-sensitivity and high-resolution LSO based small animal PET camera

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2476-2479

  Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Zhang, Yuxuan ^b   Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^b   Kim, Soonseok ^b   Ramirez, Rocio ^b   Liu, Jiguo ^b   Liu, Shitao ^b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA SPECTRUM MICRO DELUXE PHANTOM; REALISTIC SIMULATION;

ANIMALS;

EID: 38649095639     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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