Title :
Double Scatter Simulation using the Polarized Klein-Nishina formula
Author :
Dikaios, N. ; Spinks, T.J. ; Nikita, K. ; Thielemans, K.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. & Tech. Univ. of Athens
fDate :
Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
Abstract :
In this work, we introduce a new scatter simulation algorithm where the probability of having double scatter occurrences is calculated by the polarized Klein-Nishina formula. During the evaluation, we illustrate when the use of the polarized Klein-Nishina formula becomes important. The whole implementation is based on the STIR (Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction) library.
Keywords :
medical computing; medical image processing; radioisotope imaging; scattering; STIR; Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction; double scatter simulation; polarized Klein-Nishina formula; scatter simulation algorithm; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic scattering; Image reconstruction; Iterative algorithms; Medical simulation; Nuclear medicine; Particle scattering; Polarization; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0560-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354339
