Realistic and efficient modeling of radiotracer heterogeneity in Monte Carlo simulations of PET images with tumors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1 PART 1, 2012, Pages 113-122

  Stute, Simon ^a   Vauclin, Sébastien ^b   Necib, Hatem ^a   Grotus, Nicolas ^a   Tylski, Perrine ^a   Rehfeld, Niklas S ^a   Hapdey, Sébastien ^b   Buvat, Irène ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation; Patient monitoring; PET imaging; Realistic simulation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; PATHOLOGICAL CASE; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PET SCAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; REALISTIC MODELING; REALISTIC SIMULATION; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SIMULATED IMAGES; THERAPY MONITORING; TUMOR ACTIVITY; TUMOR SHAPE;

NUMERICAL METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; TUMORS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84857343364     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2177277     Document Type: Article

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