Implementation of a 3D positron emission tomography Monte-Carlo simulator

Author

Dupuy, B. ; Battle, X. ; Turzo, A. ; Le Duc-Pennec, A. ; Morin, V. ; Le Rest, C. ; Bizais, Y.

Author_Institution

Lab. de Biophys., Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

Reports the implementation of a realistic Monte-Carlo simulator, dedicated to PET simulation. The anthropomorphic voxelised Zubal phantom is used as the propagation volume. Relative activities can be set in each organ and in analytically defined sources. Thus it is possible to simulate turners and background activities. Monte-Carlo methods are used to simulate the emission and annihilation of positrons, the propagation of the two resulting 511 keV photons, the detection, coincidence and radioactive decay processes. Probabilities of photon interactions are computed in each voxel according to the density and the chemical nature of tissues and photon energy. The geometry of the detection system is widely adjustable

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; positron emission tomography; 3D positron emission tomography Monte-Carlo simulator; 511 keV; PET; analytically defined sources; anthropomorphic voxelised Zubal phantom; coincidence processes; detection processes; medical diagnostic imaging; nuclear medicine; organ; photon interactions probabilities; positrons annihilation; positrons emission; propagation volume; radioactive decay processes; relative activities; Anthropomorphism; Attenuation; Biological tissues; Chemicals; Computational modeling; Imaging phantoms; Medical simulation; Neoplasms; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6503-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949320

Filename

949320