@misc{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00067084,
 author = {田島, 英朗 and 吉田, 英治 and 赤松, 剛 and 山谷, 泰賀 and Tashima, Hideaki and Yoshida, Eiji and Akamatsu, Go and Yamaya, Taiga},
 month = {Apr},
 note = {[Purpose] Monte Carlo simulation of PET scanners are widely used for performance assessment prior to the development of an actual system as well as detailed analysis of physical processes occurring in the scanners. However, it is very difficult to model application specific PET scanners with more flexible and complex detector arrangement then the conventional cylindrical PET using existing toolkits. In this study, therefore, we developed a software framework that can model arbitrary arranged PET detectors to easily simulate PET data acquisition and image reconstruction for the system with simple configuration files.
[Methods] We developed a Monte Carlo PET simulator and an image reconstruction software, both of which take common configuration file for geometrical arrangement of detectors to model a specific scanner. The detectors can be arranged not only on a cylindrical surface but also as individual detectors with arbitrary positions and orientations. We implemented the Monte Carlo PET simulator using Geant4 toolkit because it is well validated for PET applications. Input data for modelling measurement target are voxel data indicating material distribution and radioactivity distribution. Simulated measurement data are recorded as coincidence list-mode data including random coincidence due to coincidence time window and considering energy resolution, detector dead time. We implemented the image reconstruction software as the ordinary-Poisson list-mode ordered subset expectation maximization algorithm with sensitivity, attenuation, scatter, and random corrections.
[Results] Using the developed framework, we simulated our helmet-neck PET prototype to assess the event component in the measured data and to optimize the reconstruction parameters. As a result, we found that the scatter fraction of the pool phantom used for normalization was 29%, and we could adjust sampling parameters to better fit the scatter distribution in the simulation. The image reconstruction software could reconstruct images with the same configuration file as the simulator. 
[Conclusion] We developed an easy-to-use imaging simulation framework with a Monte Carlo simulator and image reconstruction software for PET scanners with arbitrary arranged detectors., 第115回日本医学物理学会学術大会},
 title = {Development of an Imaging Simulation Framework Enabling Modelling of PET Scanners with Arbitrary Detector Arrangement},
 year = {2018}
}