A parallel Monte Carlo code for planar and SPECT imaging: Implementation, verification and applications in 131I SPECT

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 115-124

  Dewaraja, Yuni K ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^b   Majumdar, Amitava ^c   Bose, Abhijit ^d   Koral, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

131I imaging; Monte Carlo; Parallel computing; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

IODINE 131;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY; HEART; IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036140775     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(01)00121-3     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Iodine-131 anti-B1 antibody for B-Cell lymphoma: an update on the Michigan phase I experience
2. Increased survival associated with radiolabeled lym-1 therapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia
3. A method of imaging therapeutic doses of iodine-131 with a clinical gamma camera
4. 131I by subtraction of scatter and septal penetration events with a triple energy window method
5. Initial results for hybrid SPECT-conjugate-view tumor dosimetry in 131-I-Anti-B1-antibody therapy of previously-untreated lymphoma patients
6. 131I distributions in brain tumors with pinhole SPECT: a phantom study
7. SPECT quantitation of iodine-131 concentration in phantoms and human tumors
8. Development and validation of a Monte Carlo simulation of photon transport in an Anger camera
9. 131I scattering and septal penetration in gamma camera high energy parallel hole collimators
10. Characterization of collimator scatter and penetration response for I-123 imaging
11. Monte Carlo methods on advanced computer architecture
12. Status of vectorized Monte Carlo for particle transport analysis
13. Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medicine imaging
14. Monte Carlo techniques in medical radiation physics
15. Implementation of an environment for Monte Carlo simulation of fully 3-D positron tomography on a high-performance parallel platform
16. A vectorized Monte Carlo code for modeling photon transport in SPECT
17. 131I tumor quantification in radioimmunotherapy using SPECT imaging with an ultra high energy collimator: Monte Carlo study
18. Parallel linear congruential generators with prime moduli
19. Monte Carlo photon transport on shared memory and distributed memory parallel processors
20. A Monte Carlo program simulating scintillation camera imaging
21. Space alternating generalized expectation-maximization algorithm
22. Computerized three-dimensional segmented human anatomy