GATE simulations for small animal SPECT/PET using voxelized phantoms and rotating-head detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2000-2003

  Sakellios, Nikolas ^b   Rubio, Jose Luis ^c   Karakatsanis, Nicolas ^a,b   Kontaxakis, George ^a,c   Loudos, George ^a,b   Santos, Andres ^a,c   Nikita, Konstantina ^a,b   Majewski, Stan ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORS;

ROTATING-HEAD DETECTORS; TUNGSTEN COLLIMATOR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649124948     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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