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 …

Virtual clinical trials in medical imaging: a review

E Abadi, WP Segars, BMW Tsui… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

Green algorithms: quantifying the carbon footprint of computation

L Lannelongue, J Grealey, M Inouye - Advanced science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is profoundly affecting nearly all aspects of life on earth, including human
societies, economies, and health. Various human activities are responsible for significant …

Dosimetry of 177Lu-PSMA-617 in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: correlations between pretherapeutic imaging and whole-body tumor dosimetry with …

J Violet, P Jackson, J Ferdinandus… - Journal of nuclear …, 2019 - jnm.snmjournals.org
177Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)–617 enables targeted delivery of β-
particle radiation to prostate cancer. We determined its radiation dosimetry and relationships …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in Geant4

J Allison, K Amako, J Apostolakis, P Arce, M Asai… - Nuclear instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
G eant 4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is
used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains …

Track structure modeling in liquid water: A review of the Geant4-DNA very low energy extension of the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit

MA Bernal, MC Bordage, JMC Brown, M Davídková… - Physica Medica, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the fundamental mechanisms involved in the induction of biological damage
by ionizing radiation remains a major challenge of today's radiobiology research. The Monte …

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 …

PET image denoising using a deep neural network through fine tuning

K Gong, J Guan, CC Liu, J Qi - IEEE Transactions on Radiation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality widely used in clinical
diagnosis. In this paper, we trained a deep convolutional neural network to improve PET …

A review of the use and potential of the GATE Monte Carlo simulation code for radiation therapy and dosimetry applications

D Sarrut, M Bardiès, N Boussion, N Freud… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, the authors' review the applicability of the open‐source GATE Monte Carlo
simulation platform based on the GEANT4 toolkit for radiation therapy and dosimetry …

Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group

P Arce, D Bolst, MC Bordage, JMC Brown… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Geant4 is a Monte Carlo code extensively used in medical physics for a wide
range of applications, such as dosimetry, micro‐and nanodosimetry, imaging, radiation …