Fast simulation of yttrium-90 bremsstrahlung photons with GATE

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2943-2950

  Rault, Erwann ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Van Holen, Roel ^a   De Beenhouwer, Jan ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bremsstrahlung; Simulation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPECTROSCOPY; YTTRIUM;

ANALOG SIMULATIONS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; FAST SIMULATION METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); SCINTILLATION CAMERAS; SIMULATION; SPECT; TARGETED RADIONUCLIDE THERAPIES;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953509963     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3431998     Document Type: Article

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