It uses the Geant4 library and has a dedicated application in nuclear medicine. This tool also has the ability to describe time-dependent phenomena such as: movement of the spring, detector and decay kinetics of the spring. This is the most prominent feature and innovation of GATE simulation tool. In addition to the temporal features, a dedicated scripting mechanism is provided for translation into Geant4, which allows the user to control the Monte Carlo simulation visually, without having to use any special programming language. C++ programming is required.
The list of topics and outlines presented in this educational series is as follows:
Lesson 1: An overview of nuclear medicine imaging systems and Monte Carlo software
Second lesson: Definition of geometry
Definition of the world
Create volume
Repeat volume
Volume placement
volume movement
Geometry update
Third lesson: Definition of materials
GATE Material Library
Modification of material library
Ionization potential
Fourth lesson: particle physics
Introduction to simulation physics
physical processes
Lesson 5: Cutting methods and variance reduction
production threshold
Variance reduction
Lesson 6: Creating radiation sources
Create a fountain
Pencil Beam fountain
TPS Pencil Beam fountain
fastY90 fountain
Lesson 7: Voxelized springs and phantoms
Voxelized phantoms
Voxelized fountain
Doz collection
Lesson 8: Communication tool with simulation information (Actors)
General considerations
Types of actors
Filters
Lesson 9: Software implementation
Run in Interactive mode
Run in Qt mode
Run in Parameterized Macros mode
Implementation of DigiGate
Run in Batch mode
Tenth lesson: illustration tools
OpenGL software
Illustration of pictures
Lesson 11: Designing various types of medical imaging systems
System definition
Optical
SPECT
PET
CT
Scanner
System selection
Connecting the defined geometry to the system
Types of systems
Multiple system definition
Addition of sensitive detectors to the system
The twelfth lesson: Digitizer parameters and information retrieval
Digitizer modules
Data processing chains
Processing of co-occurring events
ARF
Multiple systems
Lesson 13: Different formats of output data
ASCII and Binary outputs
Root output
Interfile output
Sinogram output
ECAT output
LMF output
CT Image output
Lesson 14: General concepts of radiotherapy
Insertion of CT images in therapy simulation
dose distribution (dosimetry)
Suitable for graduates and students and senior colleagues and PhDs in medical physics, radiobiology, nuclear engineering, radiation medicine, and medical engineering.