@inproceedings{46a1cae1d53a4f3abed0533b8c8f6295,
title = "A SPECT system simulator built on the SolidWorks{\texttrademark} 3D-Design package",
abstract = "We have developed a GPU-accelerated SPECT system simulator that integrates into instrument-design workow [1]. This simulator includes a gamma-ray tracing module that can rapidly propagate gamma-ray photons through arbitrary apertures modeled by SolidWorks{\texttrademark}-created stereolithography (.STL) representations with a full complement of physics cross sections [2, 3]. This software also contains a scintillation detector simulation module that can model a scintillation detector with arbitrary scintillation crystal shape and light-sensor arrangement. The gamma-ray tracing module enables us to efficiently model aperture and detector crystals in SolidWorks{\texttrademark} and save them as STL file format, then load the STL-format model into this module to generate list-mode results of interacted gamma-ray photon information (interaction positions and energies) inside the detector crystals. The Monte-Carlo scintillation detector simulation module enables us to simulate how scintillation photons get reected, refracted and absorbed inside a scintillation detector, which contributes to more accurate simulation of a SPECT system.",
keywords = "GPU, Gamma-ray tracing, List-mode, Monte-Carlo, SPECT, STL, Scintillation detector",
author = "Xin Li and Furenlid, {Lars R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; Medical Applications of Radiation Detectors IV ; Conference date: 18-08-2014 Through 21-08-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2066181",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Roehrig, {Hans N.} and Furenlid, {Lars R.} and Barber, {H. Bradford}",
booktitle = "Medical Applications of Radiation Detectors IV",
}