in recent years, synthetic aperture radar (sar) images have played an important role in the detection and monitoring of ground targets because of their advantages such as independence from climatic conditions and sensitivity to the target geometry. the complexity of sar imaging sensors, especially in the conversion process from raw data to image, has made it difficult to interpret the behavior ...

background: various variance reduction techniques such as forced detection (fd) have been implemented in monte carlo (mc) simulation of nuclear medicine in an effort to decrease the simulation time while keeping accuracy. however most of these techniques still result in very long mc simulation times for being implemented into routine use. materials and methods: convolution-based forced detectio...

introduction spect projections are contaminated by scatter radiation, resulting in reduced image contrast and quantitative errors. backscatter constitutes a major part of the scatter contamination in lower energy windows. the current study is an evaluation of the effect of backscatter material on fwhm and image quality investigated by monte carlo simulation. materials and methods simind program...

This paper describes the parallelization of the Mermaid multicomputer simulation environment. Due to our simulation methodology, this parallelization is reasonably straightforward as it does not require any measures to guarantee the causality within the simulated system. The resulting distributed simulator increases the simulation performance without any loss of simulation accuracy. Furthermore...

Freeze-drying is one of the most used methods for preparing scaffolds and is very sensitive to the material and operational parameters such as nucleation temperature, thermal properties of the mold, cooling rate, set freezing point, and slurry height. In the present study, a Finite Element Method (FEM) based code was developed to investigate the effects of such parameters and to eventually ...