GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission): a PET/SPECT general-purpose simulation platform

被引：133

作者：

Strul, D ^{[1
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Santin, G

Lazaro, D

Breton, V

Morel, C

机构：

[1] Univ Lausanne, Inst High Energy Phys, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[2] Estec, ESA, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, Netherlands

[3] Univ Clermont Ferrand, CNRS, IN2P3, Phys Corpusculaire Lab, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France

来源：

NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS | 2003年 / 125卷

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D O I：

10.1016/S0920-5632(03)02224-2

中图分类号：

O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];

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摘要：

We present the development of GATE, the Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission, as a new general purpose simulation platform for PET and SPECT applications. Built on top of the Geant4 simulation toolkit, it provides multiple new features with the objective to ease the use of Geant4 in the field of nuclear medicine. The handling of time, with the description of time-dependent phenomena such as movement of geometry elements or source decay kinetics, is a key and original feature of the platform. Scripting via a command language substitutes to C++ coding. This allows to set up simulations, from the description of the geometry to the modelling of the electronics. The high modularity of the design of GATE has allowed a fast and efficient development of its various components.

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