Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine

Introduction to the Monte Carlo method (M Ljungberg). Variance reduction techniques (D R Haynor). Anthropomorphic phantoms (G Zubal). General Monte Carlo codes for use in medical radiation physics (P Andreo and M Ljungberg). An introduction to scintillation detector physics (P D Esser). The scintillation camera - basic principles (S-E Strand). The SIMSET program (T Lewellen). Vectorized Monte Carlo code for modelling photon transport in nuclear medicine (M F Smith). Positron emission tomography - basic principles (T Ohlsson and K Erlandsson). The SIMSPECT simulation system (M J Belanger et al). Monte Carlo simulation of photon transport in gamma camera collimators (D J de Vries and S C Moore). The SIMIND Monte Carlo program (M Ljungberg). Monte Carlo in SPECT scatter correction (K F Koral). Design of a collimator for imaging ^T111In (S C Moore et al). Estimation of the lung regions from Compton scatter data in SPECT (M A King and T-S Pan). The Monte Carlo method applied in other areas of SPECT imaging (M Ljungberg). Positron emission tomography: basic principles (K Erlandsson and T Ohlsson). PETSIM: Monte Carlo simulation of positron imaging systems (C J Thompson and Y Picard). Monte Carlo in quantitative 3D PET: Scatter (M Dahlbom and L Eriksson). The Monte Carlo method in other topics of nuclear medicine and medical physics (M Ljungberg).

Contributors: Dr Dan DeVries, U Mass, Worcester; Dr S C Moore, V A Medical Center, MA; C J Thompson, McGill U, Canada; Dr Pedro Andreo, IAEA and Stockholm, Vienna, Austria; Dr Ken Koral, U Michigan Ann Arbor, Dr S P Mueller, Essen University Hospital, Germany; Dr Marie Kijewski, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, US; George Zubal, Yale U, School of Medicine; Dr Mike King, U Mass Medical School, Worcester MA, US; Drs Miyaoka and Harrison, U Washington Medical Center, Seattle, US; Dr M Dahlbom, UCLA School of Medicine, US; L Eriksson, Karolinska Institute (so is Andreo) Sweden