The author's main purpose is to review the techniques and applications of the Monte Carlo
method in medical radiation physics since Raeside's review article in 1976. Emphasis is …

Monte Carlo techniques have become popular in different areas of medical physics with
advantage of powerful computing systems. In particular, they have been extensively applied …

Manual segmentation of 129 x‐ray CT transverse slices of a living male human has been
done and a computerized 3‐dimensional volume array modeling all major internal structures …

Theabsorbedradiationdosefrominternallyde… nuclides is a major factor in assessing risk
and therapeutic utility when evaluating new radiopharmaceuticals for use in nuclear …

A new method is proposed to subtract the count of scattered photons from that acquired with
a photopeak window at each pixel in each planar image of single-photon emission …

Detection of scattered gamma quanta degrades image contrast and quantitative accuracy of
single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging. This paper reviews …

In nuclear medicine, clinical assessment and diagnosis are generally based on qualitative
assessment of the distribution pattern of radiotracers used. In addition, emission tomography …

A Bayesian method is presented for simultaneously segmenting and reconstructing
emission computed tomography (ECT) images and for incorporating high-resolution …

The main components of scatter correction procedures are scatter estimation and a scatter
compensation algorithm. This paper completes a previous paper where a general …

Simultaneous correction of nonuniform attenuation and detector response was implemented
in single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) image reconstruction. A ray …