GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Centre Hospitalier d'Orsay · +36 more institutions
Abstract
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 development or assessment of image reconstruction algorithms and correction techniques. GATE, the Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission, encapsulates the Geant4 libraries to achieve a modular, versatile, scripted simulation toolkit adapted to the field of nuclear medicine. In particular, GATE allows the description of time-dependent phenomena such as source or detector movement, and source decay kinetics. This feature makes it possible to simulate time curves under realistic acquisition conditions and to test dynamic…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 52.78
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 36
Authors
53- SJS JanCorresponding
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Centre Hospitalier d'Orsay
- GSG. Santin
European Space Research and Technology Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- DSD. Strul
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris Cité, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- SSSteven Staelens
Ghent University
- KAKarine Assié
Inserm, Sorbonne Université
Topics & keywords
- Modular design
- Computer science
- Detector
- Flexibility (engineering)
- Gate array
- Monte Carlo method
- Field (mathematics)
- Computer engineering