Simulation is a very important tool in medical imaging, as I already wrote in a previous post. In nuclear medicine, Monte-Carlo simulation is the most used method to simulate data. There are several Monte-Carlo packages, which vary in precision and accuracy of the simulated effects and computational demand. Some research groups devised their own Monte-Carlo computer codes, built on top of a general-purpose code, which serves as core layer and application-specific modules are constructed in a hierarchical layer architecture.
PET-EGS based on EGS4 (Electron Gamma Shower 4) http://irs.inms.nrc.ca/research/imaging/
GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission) http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/
Dedicated packages that have supported PET and/or SPECT research are:
SimSET (Simulation System for Emission Tomography)http://depts.washington.edu/simset/html/user_guide/user_guide_index.html
SORTEO (Simulation Of Realistic Tridimensional Emitting Objects) http://sorteo.cermep.fr/
PeneloPET (PENetration and Energy LOss of PET) http://nuclear.fis.ucm.es/penelopet/
GATE is one of the most famous packages and the paper published by the authors is here:
http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/49/19/007/
Do you recommend other packages?
Great site! I am loving it!! Will be back later to read some more.looking for more updates.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pedro! I hope you are still following the blog!
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