PeneloPET, a Monte Carlo PET simulation toolkit based on PENELOPE: features and validation

España, Samuel; Herraiz, J. L.; Vicente, Esther; Vaquero López, Juan José; Desco Menéndez, Manuel; Udías, José Manuel

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PeneloPET, a Monte Carlo PET simulation toolkit based on PENELOPE: features and validation

Author(s): España, Samuel; Herraiz, J. L.; Vicente, Esther; Vaquero López, Juan José; Desco Menéndez, Manuel; Udías, José Manuel

Publisher: IEEE

Issued date: 2006

Citation: 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006, vol. 4, p. 2597 - 2601

ISBN: 978-1-4244-0922-8

ISSN: 1082-3654

DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354439

Sponsor: Support from MEC (FPA2006-07393) and CDTEAM (CENIT-Ingenio 2010) Ministerio de Industria, Spain, projects. The numerical computations of this work were done at the “High capacity cluster for physical techniques'' of the Faculty for Physical Sciences of the UCM, funded in part by the UE under the FEDER programme and in part by the UCM. Parts of this work were performed under the HGGMUCM contract "Modelización de escáneres PET de alta resolución y reconstrucción estadística de imágenes PET en animales pequeños".

Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354439

Keywords: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) , Monte Carlo Simulation

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/12235

Rights: © IEEE

Abstract:

PENELOPE is a Monte Carlo code that simulates the transport in matter of electrons, positrons and photons with energies from a few hundred of eV to 1 GeV. It is robust, fast and very accurate, but it may be unfriendly for people not acquainted with the FORTR [+]