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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2017.54.5.133

Validation Study for Image Performance of I-131 Using GATE Simulation Program  

Baek, Cheol-Ha (Dept. of Radiological Science, Dongseo University)
Kim, Dae Ho (Dept. of Radiology, Hanyang University Seoul Hospital)
Lee, Yong-Gu (Dept. of Radiological Science, Hallym Polytechnic University)
Lee, Youngjin (Dept. of Radiological Science, Eulji University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.54, no.5, 2017 , pp. 133-137 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to validate for GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission) simulation by comparing the results of GATE simulation and experiment in real SPECT system. Futhermore, we want to prove that it is possible that the quantitative research of gamma camera/SPECT imaging for therapeutic radio isotope by using GATE simulation. In this study, the SPECT system on simulation referred to the parameters of Stream-R Forte version 1.2 (Philips Medical System, Best and Heerlen, Netherlands). To understand the I-131 image of gamma camera/SPECT system, we acquired the energy spectrum and measured the full width at half maximum (FWHM) which comes from line spread function (LSF) with and without scatter material in real SPECT system. And to compare with experiment, we also measured the FWHM and acquired the energy spectrum without scatter material in GATE simulation. As a result, without scatter material, the energy peak was almost same location, which are located nearby 364 keV, and other spectrum factors are same tendency in both cases. The FWHM was increased by increasing the distance of source to detector, and the error rate was approximately 3.8%. When we used the line source with scatter material, energy spectrum also indicated similar tendency in both cases. As you confirmed earlier, GATE simulation included real instrument and radioisotope characters for therapeutic radioisotope. Therefore this result that it was possible that various quantitative study for therapeutic radioisotope imaging in gamma camera/SPECT using GATE simulation.
Keywords
Validation study; GATE simulation; Energy spectrum; I-131;
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