Investigation of OPET performance using GATE, a Geant4-based simulation software

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2713-2717

  Rannou, Fernando R ^a,b   Kohli, Vandana ^a   Prout, David L ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

GATE; Monte Carlo; Optical; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GATE; MONTE CARLO; OPTICAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT) SYSTEMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5744223826     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.835737     Document Type: Article

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