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 …

Physics and technology of time-of-flight PET detectors

DR Schaart - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The imaging performance of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems has
evolved impressively during the last∼ 15 years. A main driver of these improvements has …

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 …

DeepPET: A deep encoder–decoder network for directly solving the PET image reconstruction inverse problem

I Häggström, CR Schmidtlein, G Campanella… - Medical image …, 2019 - Elsevier
The purpose of this research was to implement a deep learning network to overcome two of
the major bottlenecks in improved image reconstruction for clinical positron emission …

A potential revolution in cancer treatment: A topical review of FLASH radiotherapy

Y Gao, R Liu, CW Chang, S Charyyev… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
FLASH radiotherapy (RT) is a novel technique in which the ultrahigh dose rate (UHDR)(≥
40 Gy/s) is delivered to the entire treatment volume. Recent outcomes of in vivo studies …

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 …

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 …

4D XCAT phantom for multimodality imaging research

WP Segars, G Sturgeon, S Mendonca… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The authors develop the 4D extended cardiac‐torso (XCAT) phantom for
multimodality imaging research. Methods: Highly detailed whole‐body anatomies for the …

Nuclear medicine and artificial intelligence: best practices for evaluation (the RELAINCE guidelines)

AK Jha, TJ Bradshaw, I Buvat, M Hatt… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - jnm.snmjournals.org
An important need exists for strategies to perform rigorous objective clinical-task-based
evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for nuclear medicine. To address this need …

A review on segmentation of positron emission tomography images

B Foster, U Bagci, A Mansoor, Z Xu… - Computers in biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a non-invasive functional imaging method at
the molecular level, images the distribution of biologically targeted radiotracers with high …