New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3
The Digitizer Unit plays an important role in modeling using Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE), a Geant4-based platform used for numerical simulations in medical imaging and radiotherapy. It simulates the response of the photodetection components using a sequence of analytical and s...
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| author | Olga Kochebina Daniel A. B. Bonifacio Daniel A. B. Bonifacio Georgios Konstantinou Adrien Paillet Christian M. Pommranz Christian M. Pommranz Gašper Razdevšek Viatcheslav Sharyy Viatcheslav Sharyy Dominique Yvon Dominique Yvon Sebastien Jan |
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| description | The Digitizer Unit plays an important role in modeling using Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE), a Geant4-based platform used for numerical simulations in medical imaging and radiotherapy. It simulates the response of the photodetection components using a sequence of analytical and semi-analytical models. The Digitizer Unit was written for the first version of GATE approximately 20 years ago. Since then, it has in parts grown in a code that can be hardly maintained. Some parts of the code were unused or duplicated; some of the functionalities were not working anymore. Therefore, the GATE Digitizer Unit update is required in order to incorporate the novelties of Geant4 to update its current version and add new features. In this article, the implementation of the new GATE Digitizer Unit (since version 9.3) is presented. Added functionalities, the impact of changes on users, the current status of the work, and perspectives are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2127f559335b499188c2c22f3c7b84cc2024-03-21T04:18:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Physics2296-424X2024-03-011210.3389/fphy.2024.12949161294916New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3Olga Kochebina0Daniel A. B. Bonifacio1Daniel A. B. Bonifacio2Georgios Konstantinou3Adrien Paillet4Christian M. Pommranz5Christian M. Pommranz6Gašper Razdevšek7Viatcheslav Sharyy8Viatcheslav Sharyy9Dominique Yvon10Dominique Yvon11Sebastien Jan12BioMaps Laboratory, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, FranceNuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN), Radiation Metrology Center, SãoPaulo, BrazilInstituto De Instrumentacion Para Imagen Molecular (I3M), Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV, Valencia, SpainMultiwave Metacrystal S. A, Geneva, SwitzerlandBioMaps Laboratory, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, FranceWerner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyInstitute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyExperimental Particle Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SloveniaBioMaps Laboratory, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, FranceDépartement de Physique des Particules, Université Paris-Saclay, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales, Gif-sur-Yvette, FranceBioMaps Laboratory, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, FranceDépartement de Physique des Particules, Université Paris-Saclay, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales, Gif-sur-Yvette, FranceBioMaps Laboratory, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, FranceThe Digitizer Unit plays an important role in modeling using Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE), a Geant4-based platform used for numerical simulations in medical imaging and radiotherapy. It simulates the response of the photodetection components using a sequence of analytical and semi-analytical models. The Digitizer Unit was written for the first version of GATE approximately 20 years ago. Since then, it has in parts grown in a code that can be hardly maintained. Some parts of the code were unused or duplicated; some of the functionalities were not working anymore. Therefore, the GATE Digitizer Unit update is required in order to incorporate the novelties of Geant4 to update its current version and add new features. In this article, the implementation of the new GATE Digitizer Unit (since version 9.3) is presented. Added functionalities, the impact of changes on users, the current status of the work, and perspectives are discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2024.1294916/fullmedical imagingsimulation softwareMonte Carlo simulationsradiation detectorssimulation workflows |
| spellingShingle | Olga Kochebina Daniel A. B. Bonifacio Daniel A. B. Bonifacio Georgios Konstantinou Adrien Paillet Christian M. Pommranz Christian M. Pommranz Gašper Razdevšek Viatcheslav Sharyy Viatcheslav Sharyy Dominique Yvon Dominique Yvon Sebastien Jan New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3 Frontiers in Physics medical imaging simulation software Monte Carlo simulations radiation detectors simulation workflows |
| title | New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3 |
| title_full | New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3 |
| title_fullStr | New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3 |
| title_full_unstemmed | New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3 |
| title_short | New GATE Digitizer Unit for versions post v9.3 |
| title_sort | new gate digitizer unit for versions post v9 3 |
| topic | medical imaging simulation software Monte Carlo simulations radiation detectors simulation workflows |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2024.1294916/full |
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