Validation of GEANT4 for accurate modeling of 111In SPECT acquisition

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 574, Issue , 2010, Pages 345-349

  Schweizer, Bernd ^a   Goedicke, Andreas ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS; IMAGING CHAINS; MEDICINE APPLICATION; NUCLEAR DECAYS; PATIENT SPECIFIC; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SPECT ACQUISITION;

IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 84893809163     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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