Monte Carlo simulation for PET scanners and shields

• Hasegawa Tomoyuki

  Health Sciences, Kitasato University

• Michel Christian

  PET Laboratory, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

• Murayama Hideo

  National Institute of Radiological Sciences

• Yamaya Taiga

  National Institute of Radiological Sciences and Tokyo Institute of Technology

• Matsuura Hajime

  Siemens -Asahi Medical Technologies Ltd.

Abstract

A Monte Carlo simulation code was developed for simulating PET scanners with the Monte Carlo program package GEANT. The present simulation code can handle not only conventional types of PET scanners, but also any complex detector systems with arbitrary geometrical configuration. All the relevant interactions of photons and electrons are taken into account in all the defined objects while optical tracking in the scintillation crystals is approximated by simple analytical simulation. In addition to basicP ET scannerP erformancfea ctors, s uch as sensitivitya nd scatterf ractionv, aluable but un-measurablien formations, u cha s photont rajectoriesa nd interactionp osition distributionc, a nb e obtaineda ndr epresentedg raphicallyin variousw ays. T his simulation codeh as provedu sefuli n analyzingth e physicsc haracteristicos f existingc ommercialP ET scannersa nd relateds hieldsa, nd in designs tudieso f new PET scanners.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Medical Physics

  Japanese Journal of Medical Physics 21 (3), 174-186, 2001

  Japan Society of Medical Physics

Keywords

• PET
• Monte Carlo simulation
• GEANT

Details

• CRID: 1390282679647941120
• NII Article ID: 130004624463
• NII Article ID: 50000997083
• NII Book ID: AA11580542
• DOI: 10.11323/jjmp2000.21.3_174
• NDL BIB ID: 5973428
• ISSN: 13455354
• PubMed: 12766303
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I5973428
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2002134079
• Text Lang: en
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