An EDUGATE simulation toolkit based on the educational easyPET
P.M.M. Correia, J. Menoita, A.L.M. Silva, N. Romanyshyn and, J.F.C.A. Veloso

TL;DR
This paper introduces a simulation toolkit for the EasyPET system, enabling educational and research applications by modeling physical aspects and image reconstruction in PET imaging.
Contribution
A comprehensive simulation toolkit for EasyPET was developed, facilitating education and research in PET technology with customizable parameters and simple image reconstruction.
Findings
The toolkit accurately simulates physical aspects of EasyPET.
It enables analysis of different system configurations.
Simulation of a NEMA IQ phantom demonstrates research potential.
Abstract
EasyPET is a new concept of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner using an innovative acquisition method based on two rotation axes for the movement of detector pairs. Due to its simplicity, it is suitable for education purposes, to teach students about the PET technology and its basic concepts, from the radiation detecting and analogue pulse analysis to the coincidence sorting and image reconstruction. The concept allows achieving high and uniform position resolution over the whole field of view (FoV), by eliminating parallax errors due to the depth of interaction (DoI), which are typical of ring-based PET systems, so quality images are obtained even without state-of-the-art image reconstruction algorithms. The technology developed at the University of Aveiro with a patent-pending, is licensed to CAEN S.p.A, and included in the educational catalogue of the company. In this work,…
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