Nuclear Science Symposium
and
Medical Imaging Conference
Lyon, France
October
15-20, 2000
Program of Oral and Poster Sessions
3.8 - MIC Instrumentation Systems and
Medical Imaging - Simulation Tools and Instrumentation Modelling
Oral Session 1
| Thursday 19 October 13:30 -
15:00 Chairperson(s) : Benjamin Tsui and Michael Ljungberg 15' per presentation |
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| 488 | Optimization of PET System Design for Lesion Detection | Jinyi Qi Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 170 | A Physics Based Model of Pixellated Semiconductor Gamma Camera | A. Glière, A. Koenig, F. Mathy, P. Hugonnard LETI - CEA Technologies Avancées, CEA Grenoble, France |
| 459 | A Monte Carlo Study of High Resolution PET with Granulated Dual Layer Detectors | M. Rafecas, G. Böning, B.J. Pichler, E. Lorenz, M. Schwaiger, S.I. Ziegler Nuklearmedizin TU München, MPI für Physik München |
| 638 | Scintillator Crystal Optimization by Monte Carlo Simulation for Photodiode Matrix Detector | J.Chavanelle, A. Pousse, L. Fagot, M. Parmentier and B.Kastler |
| 744 | Design and simulation of scintillator-pixel photodetector with the ability to measure position of interaction. | G.J. Takacs, A.B. Rosenfeld, Senior Member, IEEE, M.L.F. Lerch, Member, IEEE, G.N. Taylor, S.R. Meikle, Member, IEEE, S. Eberl, Member, IEEE, P.E. Simmonds, V.L.Perevertailo4, B.J. Allen, |
| 214 | Investigation of a bias free positioning estimator for the scintillation camera | J. Joung, R. S. Miyaoka, and T. K. Lewellen |
Oral Session 2
| Friday 20 October 13:30 -
15:00 Chairperson(s) : Benjamin Tsui and Michael Ljungberg 15' per presentation |
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| 209 | A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Planar and SPECT Imaging: Implementation, Verification and Applications in I-131 SPECT | Yuni Dewaraja(1), Michael Ljungberg(2), Amitava Majumdar(3), Abhijit Bose(1), Kenneth F Koral(1) (1) University of Michigan, USA (2) Lund Unversity, Sweden (3) San Diego Super Computer Center, USA |
| 630 | Realistic Monte Carlo Simulation of Ga-67 Imaging for Optimization and Evaluation of Correction Methods | S.C. Moore, G. El Fakhri Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| 387 | Evaluation of geometric, scatter and septal penetration components in fan beam collimators using Monte Carlo simulation | A.Cot, D.Pareto, J.Sempau, S.Bullich, J.Pavía, F.Calviño, D.Ros |
| 629 | Performance Evaluation of a Small Field-of-View Camera for Myocardial Perfusion SPECT using a Channelized Hotelling Observer | S.A. Sawyer, E.C. Frey, K.L. Gilland, B.M.W. Tsui, J. Gormley |
| 707 | Estimation of Mechanical Properties From Gated SPECT and Cine MRI Data Using a Finite Element Mechanical Model of the Left Ventricle | Bing Feng, Alex Veress, Arkadiusz Sitek, Grant T. Gullberg, and Dilip Ghosh Roy |
| 682 | Development of an Interactive Software Application to Model Patient Populations in the Spline-Based MCAT Phantom | W. Paul Segars, David S. Lalush and Benjamin M. W. Tsui |
Poster Session 1
| Thursday 19 October 15:00 -
16:30 Chairperson(s) : Benjamin Tsui and Michael Ljungberg |
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| 104 | Search Algorithm of a Maximum Rectangular Region
for Object Description |
M. Chizaki and K. Ogawa |
| 225 | Compact Compton Camera | P. Antich, R. Parkey, E. Tsyganov, A. Zinchenko |
| 260 | Implementation of a Positron Emission Tomography Monte-Carlo simulator | B. Dupuy, X. Battle, A. Turzo, A. Le Duc-Pennec, V. Morin, C. Le Rest, Y.Bizais |
| 262 | Geometrical Response Modeling in Fan-Beam Collimators. A Numerical Simulation | D.Pareto, A.Cot, C.Falcón, I.Juvells, J.Pavía, D.Ros |
| 330 | A Digital Phantom of the Axilla Based on the Visible Human Project Data Set | Stephen McCallum, Andrew Welch |
| 360 | Use of an Analytical Model for Optimizing the Design of a Small-animal PET Scanner with DOI Capability | D. Strul, R.B. Slates, M. Dahlbom, S.R. Cherry, and P.K. Marsden King's College London and UCLA School of Medicine |
| 462 | Rebinning Errors in Coincidence Imaging Due to Depth of Interaction | C.E. Ordonez |
| 507 | Slat Collimation and Cylindrical Detectors for PET Simulations using SimSET | R.L Harrison, S.D. Vannoy, M.S. Kaplan, T.K. Lewellen Dept. of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 542 | Effect of Voxel Size in CT Simulations | Andrew L. Goertzen, Freek J. Beekman, Simon R. Cherry |
| 574 | EGS4 Monte Carlo Simulation of a High-Pressure Xenon Tube Detector Array | Lawrence P. Armendarez, Christopher S. Martin, Duy Tu, and Jeffrey L. Lacy |
| 594 | Design Studies of Collimated Gamma Ray Sources | M. Mikolaou, G. Spyrou and G. Panagiotakis, Univ of Patras; G. Tzanakos, Univ of Athens |
| 650 | Monte Carlo Simulation for Medical Imaging with X-rays | Jing Ning, Sally McClean |
| 660 | Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiological Imaging Systems and the Recovery of the Poisson Distribution | J. Peter and R.J. Jaszczak |
| 680 | Monte-Carlo simulation of gamma-cameras using GEANT | J. Berthot, V. Breton, P. Brette, D. Lazaro |
| 708 | Deformable Model of the Heart with Fiber Structure | A. Sitek, G.J. Klein, G.T. Gullberg, and R.H. Huesman |
| 734 | An Anthropomorphic Phantom Integrated EGS4 Monte
Carlo Code and Its Application in Compton Probe |
L. Zhang1, S.J. Wilderman3, N.H.Clinthorne2, and W.L. Rogers1,2 1 Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, 2 Division of Nuclear Medicine,3 Dept. of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor |