Accurate modeling of nuclear-medicine collimators in Monte Carlo simulation of high-energy photons

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 422, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 745-750

  Wilderman, S J ^a   Dewaraja, Y ^b   Koral, K F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

131I imaging; Monte Carlo simulation; Nuclear medicine imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243746754     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(98)01028-6     Document Type: Article

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