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PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE
Volume 97, Issue 12, Pages 2026-2038Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2027925
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Database; Monte Carlo simulation; positron emission tomography (PET); SORTEO
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- Brittany region, France
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The purpose of the work described in this paper was the development of a framework for the creation of a realistic positron emission tomography (PET) simulated database incorporating patient-specific variability. The ground truth used was therefore based on clinical PET/computed tomography (CT) data of oncology patients. In the first step, the NURBS-based cardiac-torso phantom was adapted to the patient's CT acquisitions to reproduce their specific anatomy while the corresponding PET acquisitions were used to derive the activity distribution of each organ of interest. Secondly, realistic tumor shapes with homogeneous or heterogeneous activity distributions were modeled based on segmentation of the PET tumor volume and incorporated in the patient-specific models obtained at the first step. Lastly, patient-specific respiratory motion was also modeled. The derived patient-specific models were subsequently combined with the PET SORTEO Monte Carlo simulation tool for the simulation of the whole-body PET acquisition process. The accuracy of the simulated datasets was assessed in comparison to the original clinical patient images. In addition, a couple of applications for such simulated images were also demonstrated. Future work will focus on the creation of a comprehensive database of simulated raw data and reconstructed whole-body images, facilitating the rigorous evaluation of image-processing algorithms in PET for oncology applications.
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