Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE

D Sarrut, M Bała, M Bardiès, J Bert… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Built on top of the Geant4 toolkit, GATE is collaboratively developed for more than 15 years
to design Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear-based imaging systems. It is, in particular …

The OpenGATE ecosystem for Monte Carlo simulation in medical physics

D Sarrut, T Baudier, D Borys, A Etxebeste… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews the ecosystem of GATE, an open-source Monte Carlo toolkit for medical
physics. Based on the shoulders of Geant4, the principal modules (geometry, physics …

Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

P Lecoq, C Morel, JO Prior, D Visvikis… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the seventies, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an invaluable
medical molecular imaging modality with an unprecedented sensitivity at the picomolar …

3D prompt gamma imaging for proton beam range verification

E Draeger, D Mackin, S Peterson, H Chen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We tested the ability of a single Compton camera (CC) to produce 3-dimensional (3D)
images of prompt gammas (PGs) emitted during the irradiation of a tissue-equivalent plastic …

Compton imaging for medical applications

H Tashima, T Yamaya - Radiological Physics and Technology, 2022 - Springer
Compton imaging exploits inelastic scattering, known as Compton scattering, using a
Compton camera consisting of a scatterer detector in the front layer and an absorber …

Imaging of 99mTc-DMSA and 18F-FDG in humans using a Si/CdTe Compton camera

T Nakano, M Sakai, K Torikai, Y Suzuki… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The Compton camera can simultaneously acquire images of multiple isotopes injected in a
body; therefore, it has the potential to introduce a new subfield in the field of biomedical …

[HTML][HTML] System characterization and performance studies with MACACO III Compton camera

L Barrientos, M Borja-Lloret, JV Casaña… - Radiation Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The IRIS group of IFIC-Valencia has developed a Compton camera prototype. The system
detectors are made of Lanthanum (III) bromide scintillator crystals coupled to silicon …

Joint image reconstruction algorithm in Compton cameras

J Roser, L Barrientos, J Bernabéu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. To demonstrate the benefits of using an joint image reconstruction algorithm
based on the List Mode Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximization that combines …

The SiFi-CC project–Feasibility study of a scintillation-fiber-based Compton camera for proton therapy monitoring

J Kasper, K Rusiecka, R Hetzel, MK Kozani, R Lalik… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the big challenges for proton therapy is the development of tools for online
monitoring of the beam range, which are suited to operate in clinical conditions and can be …

CCMod: a GATE module for Compton camera imaging simulation

A Etxebeste, D Dauvergne, M Fontana… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Compton cameras are gamma-ray imaging systems which have been proposed for a wide
variety of applications such as medical imaging, nuclear decommissioning or homeland …