Analytical positron range modelling in heterogeneous media for PET Monte Carlo simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3313-3335

  Lehnert, Wencke ^a   Gregoire, Marie Claude ^b   Reilhac, Anthonin ^b   Meikle, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FITTING COEFFICIENT; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LOOK UP TABLE; LOWER ENERGIES; MEDIUM HETEROGENEITY; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATORS; POSITRON EMITTERS; POSITRON RANGE; POSITRONIUM FORMATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SIMULATED DATA; SIMULATION ACCURACY; TORTUOUS PATH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITRONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79956084005     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/11/009     Document Type: Article

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