Monte Carlo simulation for the ECAT EXACT HR+ system using GATE

Author

Jan, S. ; Comtat, C. ; Strul, D. ; Santin, G. ; Trébossen, R.

Author_Institution

Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, CEA, Orsay, France

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2545

Abstract

GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission) is a Monte Carlo simulation platform for nuclear medicine imaging, based on the Geant4 toolkit package. This tool was used to construct a full and realistic simulator for the ECAT EXACT HR+ scanner, with the objective of optimising data acquisition protocols, image quantification and reconstruction techniques. In this study, we will compare the performances of the simulator against experimental data obtained with the HR+ scanner in order to validate its use for PET imaging systems simulations. Simulated and measured data were found to be in good agreement. An example of a coupling PET and MRI system is also simulated with GATE and we give some results about the image resolution for this multimodality device.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; biomedical MRI; data acquisition; image reconstruction; image resolution; positron emission tomography; protocols; ECAT EXACT HR+ system; GATE; Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission; Geant4 toolkit package; MRI system; Monte Carlo simulation; PET imaging system simulations; data acquisition protocols; image quantification; image reconstruction techniques; image resolution; multimodality device; nuclear medicine imaging; Data acquisition; Detectors; Event detection; Image reconstruction; Medical simulation; Nuclear medicine; Particle scattering; Positron emission tomography; Protocols; Rayleigh scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8257-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352409

Filename

1352409