The Application of GATE and NCAT to Respiratory Motion Simulation in Allegro PET

Author

He, Jianfeng ; O´Keefe, Graeme J. ; Jones, Gareth ; Saunder, Tim ; Gong, Sylvia J. ; Geso, Moshi ; Scott, Andrew M.

Author_Institution

PET Centre, Austin Hosp., Heidelberg, Vic.

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

2589

Lastpage

2593

Abstract

Respiratory motion artifacts can be a significant factor that limits the PET image quality. To compensate respiratory motion, simulation using software packages may provide a valuable tool for the assessment of respiratory motion detection and correction. In this study, we investigate respiratory motion by simulation using GATE (GEANT4 Application Tomographic Emission) [Jan, et al., 2005] and NCAT (NURBs(Non Uniform Rational B-Splines) Cardiac Torso) [Segars, et al., 2001] software packages.

Keywords

medical computing; positron emission tomography; software packages; Allegro PET; GATE; GEANT4 application tomographic emission; NCAT; PET image quality; nonuniform rational B-splines cardiac torso; respiratory motion artifact; respiratory motion detection; respiratory motion simulation; software packages; Australia; Discrete event simulation; Hospitals; Image reconstruction; Imaging phantoms; Medical simulation; Positron emission tomography; Software packages; Solid modeling; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354437

Filename

4179551