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 …

Monte Carlo methods for medical imaging research

H Lee - Biomedical Engineering Letters, 2024 - Springer
In radiation-based medical imaging research, computational modeling methods are used to
design and validate imaging systems and post-processing algorithms. Monte Carlo methods …

[HTML][HTML] DEM2GATE: Combining discrete element method simulation with virtual positron emission particle tracking experiments

MT Herald, JA Sykes, D Werner, JPK Seville… - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) is a Lagrangian particle tracking
technique useful for imaging flow in opaque granular media. The scientific and industrial …

Monte Carlo simulation of digital photon counting PET

J Salvadori, J Labour, F Odille, PY Marie, JN Badel… - EJNMMI physics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract A GATE Monte Carlo model of the Philips Vereos digital photon counting PET
imaging system using silicon photo-multiplier detectors was proposed. It was evaluated …

Monte Carlo model validation of a detector system used for Positron Emission Particle Tracking

M Herald, T Wheldon, C Windows-Yule - Nuclear Instruments and Methods …, 2021 - Elsevier
The spatiotemporal resolution of Lagrangian particle trajectories captured using Positron
Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) is difficult to predict prior to experimentation, since this …

A feature point identification method for positron emission particle tracking with multiple tracers

C Wiggins, R Santos, A Ruggles - … Methods in Physics Research Section A …, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel detection algorithm for Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) with multiple
tracers based on optical feature point identification (FPI) methods is presented. This new …

Monte Carlo model of the large modular array for positron emission particle tracking

M Herald, D Hampel, TK Wheldon, J Seville… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) is a non-invasive technique used to study fluid,
granular, and multi-phase systems of interest to academia and industry. PEPT employs …

Qualification of multiple-particle positron emission particle tracking (M-PEPT) technique for measurements in turbulent wall-bounded flow

C Wiggins, N Patel, Z Bingham, A Ruggles - Chemical Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) has been shown to be useful for flow
interrogation in opaque systems. In this work, a recently developed method for multiple …

Autonomous digitizer calibration of a Monte Carlo detector model through evolutionary simulation

M Herald, A Nicuşan, TK Wheldon, J Seville… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Simulating the response of a radiation detector is a modelling challenge due to the
stochastic nature of radiation, often complex geometries, and multi-stage signal processing …

Simulated time-dependent data to estimate uncertainty in fluid flow measurements

M Herald, Z Bingham, R Santos, A Ruggles - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) is an emerging measurement technique
for Lagrangian data collection in experimental fluid flows. The nature of the measurement …