Monte carlo simulations of the count rate performance of a clinical whole-body MR/PET scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4126-4135

  Delso, Gaspar ^a   Martinez, Maria Jose ^a   Torres, Irene ^a   Ladebeck, Ralf ^b   Michel, Christian ^b   Nekolla, Stephan ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GATE; Integrated; Monte Carlo; MR PET; Simultaneous

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

GATE; INTEGRATED; LOWER LEVEL DISCRIMINATORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; MR/PET; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; SIMULTANEOUS; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER; DEGRADATION KINETICS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WHOLE BODY COUNTING; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69549121840     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3193676     Document Type: Article

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