Optical simulation of monolithic scintillator detectors using GATE/GEANT4

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1659-1675

  Van Der Laan, D J ^a   Schaart, Dennis R ^a   Maas, Marnix C ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b   Bruyndonckx, Peter ^c   Van Eijk, Carel W E ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC SIGNALS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; GEANT4 SIMULATION TOOLKIT; HIGH-RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; INPUT PARAMETER; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPTICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PHYSICS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; PET DETECTORS; POSITION SENSITIVE; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION MODEL; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION PROCESS; SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; LIGHT EMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 77749341126     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/6/009     Document Type: Article

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