Integration of SimSET photon history generator in GATE for efficient Monte Carlo simulations of pinhole SPECT

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3278-3284

  Chen, Chia Lin ^a   Wang, Yuchuan ^b   Lee, Jason J S ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GATE; Monte Carlo simulation; SimSET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GATE; INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS; SIMSET; SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPECT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DEVICE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 46149092529     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2940159     Document Type: Article

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