Assessment of scatter for the micro-CT subsystem of the trimodality FLEX Triumph™ preclinical scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4154-4165

  Gutierrez, Daniel ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^a,b,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

micro CT; Monte Carlo; PET CT; preclinical imaging; scatter

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SCANNING; SCATTERING;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; BEAM ENERGIES; IMAGING DEVICE; MICRO CT; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PERIPHERAL REGIONS; PRECLINICAL IMAGING; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

RATTUS;

EID: 79960205543     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3598438     Document Type: Article

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