Simulation of a PET system and study of some geometry parameters
The Monte Carlo simulation of small animal conventional positron emission tomography (PET) is an important tool for geometry parameters optimization, image reconstruction algorithm tests, performance of different radioisotopic sources and some others. The present work deals with the Monte Carlo stud...
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Published in | AIP conference proceedings Vol. 1032; no. 1; pp. 219 - 221 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
01.01.2008
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Summary: | The Monte Carlo simulation of small animal conventional positron emission tomography (PET) is an important tool for geometry parameters optimization, image reconstruction algorithm tests, performance of different radioisotopic sources and some others. The present work deals with the Monte Carlo study of a small cylindrical PET system in the framework of the GEANT4 code. Two different accepted ring width values and spherical sources of 18F and 44Sc isotopes were considered. Then, the improvement of the detection efficiency and spatial resolution was analyzed in all the cases. |
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Bibliography: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-2 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Conference Paper-1 content type line 23 SourceType-Conference Papers & Proceedings-1 ObjectType-Article-3 |
ISBN: | 9780735405561 0735405565 |
ISSN: | 0094-243X 1551-7616 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.2979273 |