Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE

D Sarrut, M Bała, M Bardiès, J Bert… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Built on top of the Geant4 toolkit, GATE is collaboratively developed for more than 15 years
to design Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear-based imaging systems. It is, in particular …

[图书][B] A guide to Monte Carlo simulations in statistical physics

D Landau, K Binder - 2021 - books.google.com
Dealing with all aspects of Monte Carlo simulation of complex physical systems encountered
in condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, this book provides an introduction to …

GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT

S Jan, G Santin, D Strul, S Staelens… - Physics in Medicine …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo simulation is an essential tool in emission tomography that can assist in the
design of new medical imaging devices, the optimization of acquisition protocols and the …

MCAT to XCAT: The evolution of 4-D computerized phantoms for imaging research

WP Segars, BMW Tsui - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work in the development of computerized phantoms has focused on the creation of
ideal ldquohybridrdquo models that seek to combine the realism of a patient-based …

Validation of GATE Monte Carlo simulations of the GE Advance/Discovery LS PET scanners

CR Schmidtlein, AS Kirov, SA Nehmeh, YE Erdi… - Medical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The recently developed GATE (geant4 application for tomographic emission) Monte Carlo
package, designed to simulate positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon …

Optical reflectance measurements for commonly used reflectors

M Janecek, WW Moses - IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When simulating light collection in scintillators, modeling the angular distribution of optical
light reflectance from surfaces is very important. Since light reflectance is poorly understood …

Simulating scintillator light collection using measured optical reflectance

M Janecek, WW Moses - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accurately predict the light collection from a scintillating crystal through Monte Carlo
simulations, it is crucial to know the angular distribution from the surface reflectance. Current …

Evaluation of collimators' response: Round and hexagonal holes in parallel and fan beam

A Khorshidi, M Ashoor, SH Hosseini… - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2012 - Elsevier
With regard to the different requirements, various collimators are widely employed within
nuclear medicine systems in order to evaluate the metabolism of organs as well as improve …

Monte Carlo simulation of digital photon counting PET

J Salvadori, J Labour, F Odille, PY Marie, JN Badel… - EJNMMI physics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract A GATE Monte Carlo model of the Philips Vereos digital photon counting PET
imaging system using silicon photo-multiplier detectors was proposed. It was evaluated …

Upgraded modelling for the determination of centre of mass corrections of geodetic SLR satellites: impact on key parameters of the terrestrial reference frame

J Rodríguez, G Appleby, T Otsubo - Journal of Geodesy, 2019 - Springer
We present improved modelling to compute centre of mass (CoM) offsets for spherical
geodetic satellites and derive new values for the spacecraft LAGEOS, LAGEOS-2, Etalon …