Introducing improved voxel navigation and fictitious interaction tracking in GATE for enhanced efficiency

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2163-2178

  Rehfeld, Niklas S ^a   Stute, Simon ^a   Apostolakis, John ^b   Soret, Marine ^c   Buvat, Irène ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c University of Paris Descartes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION FACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; ENHANCED EFFICIENCIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE TRACKING; PET/CT SCANNERS; RANDOM FRACTIONS; SPEED-UP; TIME SPENT;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIGATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 63649158562     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/7/021     Document Type: Article

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