Title :
Monte Carlo simulation of scatter effect for clinical gamma camera
Author :
Saikouk, H. ; El Khayati, N.
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Phys. Nucl., Mohammed V-Agdal Univ., Rabat, Morocco
Abstract :
Image in nuclear medicine represents a primordial material in diagnostics and quantitative studies. However, its quality is influenced by factors such as attenuation, scatter and partial volume effects. In the present work we are interested in investigating quantitatively the scatter effect on the spatial resolution and the energy spectrum using the Monte Carlo simulation.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; gamma-ray scattering; medical image processing; radioisotope imaging; single photon emission computed tomography; Monte Carlo simulation; SPECT gamma camera; attenuation effects; energy spectrum; nuclear medicine; partial volume effects; patient diagnosis; primordial material; scatter effect; single photon computed tomography gamma camera; Backscatter; Energy resolution; Materials; Nuclear medicine; Photonics; Scattering; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering (MECBME), 2014 Middle East Conference on
Conference_Location :
Doha
DOI :
10.1109/MECBME.2014.6783265
