Title :
Application of GATE to Simulate Respiratory Motion
Author :
He, Jianfeng ; Geso, Moshi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Eng. & Autom., Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kunming, China
Abstract :
Simulation is generally one important step in the validation of technique development of respiratory motion compensation prior to the clinic validation. Conventionally phantom used for respiratory motion simulation includes physical phantom, mechanical phantom or digital voxelised phantom. However, the physical phantom requests operator intervention. The mechanical phantom device costs are expensive. And the digital voxelised phantom usually requires normalization or convention of data before utilizing for respiratory motion simulation. In this paper, a simple approach of respiratory motion simulation is implemented by using GATE (Geant4 Application Tomography Emission) software packages. This approach has the features of less computational simulation and phantom setting up simply comparing with conventional phantoms for respiratory motion in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.
Keywords :
digital simulation; medical image processing; physiology; positron emission tomography; Geant4 application tomography emission software packages; clinic validation; digital voxelised phantom; mechanical phantom; physical phantom; positron emission tomography imaging; respiratory motion compensation; respiratory motion simulation; Computational modeling; Imaging phantoms; Logic gates; Oscillators; Phantoms; Positron emission tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5088-6
DOI :
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5780206