Radioembolization dosimetry with total-body 90Y PET

G Costa, B Spencer, N Omidvari, C Foster… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
Transarterial radioembolization (TARE) is a locoregional radiopharmaceutical therapy
based on the delivery of radioactive 90Y microspheres to liver tumors. The importance of …

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 evaluation of hypothetical long axial field‐of‐view PET scanner using GE Discovery MI PET front‐end architecture

A Tiwari, M Merrick, SA Graves… - Medical Physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The development of total‐body PET scanners is of growing interest in the PET
community. Investigation into the imaging properties of a hypothetical extended axial field‐of …

Design and proof of concept of a double-panel TOF-PET system

A Gonzalez-Montoro, N Pavón, J Barberá, N Cuarella… - EJNMMI physics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Objective Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a well-known imaging
technology for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of several diseases. Most PET …

Implementation of the EPICS2017 database for photons in Geant4

Z Li, C Michelet, S Incerti, V Ivanchenko, M Novak… - Physica Medica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper describes in detail the implementation of Geant4 Livermore electromagnetic
physics models based on the EPICS2017 database for the low energy transport of photons …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in Geant4 applications in medicine

S Incerti, JMC Brown, S Guatelli - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
The 3rd Geant4 International Conference at the Physics-Medicine-Biology Frontier, 29-31
October 2018, was organized in Bordeaux, France, by the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de …

Design and performance simulation studies of a breast PET insert integrable into a clinical whole-body PET/MRI scanner

CM Pommranz, FP Schmidt… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Three different breast positron emission tomography (PET) insert geometries are
proposed for integration into an existing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) breast coil …

Yttrium-90 quantitative phantom study using digital photon counting PET

J Labour, P Boissard, T Baudier, F Khayi, D Kryza… - EJNMMI physics, 2021 - Springer
Background PET imaging of 90 Y-microsphere distribution following radioembolisation is
challenging due to the count-starved statistics from the low branching ratio of e+/e− pair …

New setup for basic radiobiology studies using a 3 MV TandetronTM: Design and developments

M Straticiuc, M Bacalum, CM Rusu, R Andrei… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of the study was to upgrade the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and
Nuclear Engineering existing facility-a 3 MV Tandetron TM accelerator-to be used in …

A generalization of the maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) method: Masked-MLEM

Y Zheng, E Frame, J Caravaca… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In our previous work on image reconstruction for single-layer collimatorless
scintigraphy, we developed the min–min weighted robust least squares (WRLS) optimization …