SORTEO: Monte Carlo-based simulator with list-mode capabilities

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3751-3754

  McLennan, Andrew ^a   Reilhac, Anthonin ^b   Brady, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Biospective   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

LIST MODE DATA; MEDIA DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATORS; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; PROJECTION DATA; ROUNDING ERRORS; SIMULATION MODEL; SPATIO TEMPORAL;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 77950979013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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