LuCaS: Efficient monte carlo simulations of highly realistic PET tumor images

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4010-4012

  Stute, Simon ^a   Tylski, Perrine ^a   Grotus, Nicolas ^a   Buvat, Irene ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

GATE; Monte Carlo; Positron emission tomography; Simulation; Tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GATE; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; LARGE DATASETS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PET IMAGES; SIMULATED IMAGES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION APPROACH; SINOGRAM; SINOGRAMS; TUMOR ACTIVITY; TUMOR IMAGES; TUMOR SEGMENTATION; TUMOR SHAPE; TUMOR TISSUES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649196775     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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