GRAY: High energy photon ray tracer for PET applications

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2011-2015

  Olcott, Peter D ^a,b   Buss, Sam R ^c   Levin, Craig S ^a,b   Pratx, Guillem ^a,b   Sramek, Chris K ^b  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High energy photons; Monte Carlo simulation; PET; Positron emission tomography; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RAY TRACING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; PHOTON RAY TRACER; PHOTON TRANSPORT; TRACER KINETIC MODELING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649100991     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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