Physics process level discrimination of detections for GATE: Assessment of contamination in SPECT and spurious activity in PET

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1053-1060

  De Beenhouwer, Jan ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Verhaeghe, Jeroen ^a   Van Holen, Roel ^a   Rault, Erwann ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSIONS; OPTIMIZED WINDOWS; PROCESS LEVELS; PROTOTYPE DETECTOR; TRIPLE ENERGY WINDOW SCATTER CORRECTIONS;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

IODINE 124;

ARTICLE; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; KIDNEY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 63849224420     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3078045     Document Type: Article

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