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 …

Simulating NEMA characteristics of the modular total-body J-PET scanner—an economic total-body PET from plastic scintillators

P Moskal, P Kowalski, RY Shopa… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of the presented research is estimation of the performance characteristics of
the economic total-body Jagiellonian-PET system (TB-J-PET) constructed from plastic …

Attenuation correction synthesis for hybrid PET-MR scanners: application to brain studies

N Burgos, MJ Cardoso, K Thielemans… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attenuation correction is an essential requirement for quantification of positron emission
tomography (PET) data. In PET/CT acquisition systems, attenuation maps are derived from …

Feasibility study of the positronium imaging with the J-PET tomograph

P Moskal, D Kisielewska, C Curceanu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A detection system of the conventional PET tomograph is set-up to record data from
annihilation into two photons with energy of 511 keV, and it gives information on the density …

CASToR: a generic data organization and processing code framework for multi-modal and multi-dimensional tomographic reconstruction

T Merlin, S Stute, D Benoit, J Bert… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In tomographic medical imaging (PET, SPECT, CT), differences in data acquisition and
organization are a major hurdle for the development of tomographic reconstruction software …

Dynamic whole-body PET parametric imaging: I. Concept, acquisition protocol optimization and clinical application

NA Karakatsanis, MA Lodge, AK Tahari… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Static whole-body PET/CT, employing the standardized uptake value (SUV), is considered
the standard clinical approach to diagnosis and treatment response monitoring for a wide …

Cognitive deficits and striato-frontal dopamine release in Parkinson's disease

N Sawamoto, P Piccini, G Hotton, N Pavese… - Brain, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is often accompanied by a pattern of executive deficits
similar to those found in patients with frontal lobe lesions. We investigated whether such …

Gamos: A framework to do Geant4 simulations in different physics fields with an user-friendly interface

P Arce, JI Lagares, L Harkness… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
G amos is a software system for G eant 4-based simulation. It comprises a framework, a set
of components providing functionality to simulation applications on top of the G eant 4 toolkit …

The dopaminergic basis of human behaviors: A review of molecular imaging studies

A Egerton, MA Mehta, AJ Montgomery… - Neuroscience & …, 2009 - Elsevier
This systematic review describes human molecular imaging studies which have investigated
alterations in extracellular DA levels during performance of behavioral tasks. Whilst …