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    Only the GATE-related articles published by the members of the OpenGATE collaboration are listed here.

  • Stute S, Carlier T, Cristina K, Noblet C, Martineau A, Hutton B, Barnden L, Buvat I. Monte Carlo simulations of clinical PET and SPECT scans: impact of the input data on the simulated images. Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 6441-6457
  • Grevillot L, Bertrand D, Dessy F, Freud N, Sarrut D. A Monte Carlo pencil beam scanning model for proton treatment plan simulation using GATE/GEANT4.
    Phys Med Biol. 56 (2011) 5203-5219
  • Jan S, Benoit D, Becheva E, Carlier T, Cassol F, Descourt P, Frisson T, Grevillot L, Guigues L, Maigne L, Morel C, Perrot Y, Rehfeld N, Sarrut D, Schaart DR, Stute S, Pietrzyk U, Visvikis D, Zahra N, Buvat I. GATE V6: a major enhancement of the GATE simulation platform enabling modelling of CT and radiotherapy. Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 881-901
  • Grevillot L, Frisson T, Maneval D, Zahra N, Badel JN, Sarrut D. Simulation of a 6 MV Elekta Precise Linac photon beam using GATE/GEANT4. Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 903-918
  • Maigne L, Perrot Y, Schaart DR, Donnarieix D, Breton V. Comparison of GATE/GEANT4 with EGSnrc and MCNP for electron dose calculations at energies between 15 keV and 20 MeV. Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 811-827
  • Rault E, Staelens S, Van Holen R, De Beenhouwer J, Vandenberghe S. Fast simulation of yttrium-90 bremsstrahlung photons with GATE. Med. Phys. 37 (2010) 2943-2950
  • Van der Laan DJ, Schaart DR, Maas CM, Beekman FJ, Bruyndonckx R, van Eijk CWE. Optical simulation of monolithic scintillator detectors using GATE/GEANT4. Phys. Med. Biol. 55 (2010) 1659-1675
  • Rehfeld NS, Vauclin S, Stute S, Buvat I. Multidimensional B-spline parameterization of the detection probability of PET systems to improve the efficiency of Monte Carlo simulations. Phys. Med. Biol. 55 (2010) 3339-3361
  • Rehfeld NS, Stute S, Apostolakis J, Soret M, Buvat I. Introducing improved voxel navigation and fictitious interaction tracking in GATE for enhanced efficiency. Phys. Med. Biol. 54 (2009) 2163-2178
  • Chen Y, Liu B, O'Connor JM, Didier CS, Glick SJ. Characterization of scatter in cone-beam CT breast imaging: Comparison of experimental measurements and Monte Carlo simulation. Med. Phys. 36 (2009) 857-869
  • Chen CL, Wang Y, Lee JJ, Tsui BMW. Integration of SimSET photon history generator in GATE for efficient Monte Carlo simulations of pinhole SPECTmed. Phys. 35 (2008) 3278-3284
  • Taschereau R, Chatziioannou AF. Compressed voxels for high-resolution phantom simulations in GATE. Mol. Imaging Biol. 10 (2008) 40-47
  • Thiam CO, Breton V, Donnarieix D, Habib B, Maigne L. Validation of a dose deposited by low energy photons using GATE/GEANT4. Phys. Med. Biol. 53 (2008) 3039-3055
  • De Beenhouwer J, Staelens S, Vandenberghe S, Lemahieu I. Acceleration of GATE SPECT simulations. Med. Phys. 35 (2008) 1476-1485
  • De Beenhouwer J, Staelens S, Kruecker D, Ferrer L, D'Asseler Y, Lemahieu I, Rannou FR. Cluster computing software for GATE simulations. Med. Phys. 34 (2007) 1926-1933
  • Vandervoort E, Camborde ML, Jan S, Sossi V. Monte Carlo modelling of singles-mode transmission data for small animal PET scanners. Phys. Med. Biol. 52 (2007) 3169-3184
  • Ferrer L, Chouin B, Bitar A, Lisbona A, Bardies M. Implementing dosimetry in GATE: dose point kernel validation with GEANT4 4.8.1. Cancer Biother. Radiopharm. 22 (2007) 125-129
  • Gonias P, Bertsekas N, Liaparinos P, Cavouras D, Kandarakis I, Panayiotakis G, Saatsakis G, Nikolopoulos D, Loudos G, Sakelios N, Karakatsanis N, Gaitanis A, Papaspyrou L, Daskalakis A. Validation of a GATE model for the simulation of the Siemens PET/CT biograph 6 scanner. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 571 (2007) 263-266
  • van der Laan DJ, Maas MC, de Jong HWAM, Schaart DR, Bruyndonckx P, Lemaitre C, van Eijk CWE. Simulated performance of a small-animal PET scanner based on monolithic scintillation detectors. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 571 (2007) 227-230
  • Taschereau R, Chatziioannou AF. Monte Carlo simulations of absorbed dose in a mouse phantom from 18-fluorine compounds. Med. Phys. 34 (2007) 1026-1036
  • Branco S, Jan S, Almeida P. Monte Carlo simulations in small animal PET imaging. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 580 (2007) 1127-1130
  • Santin G, Staelens S, Taschereau R, Descourt P, Schmidtlein CR, Simon L, Visvikis D, Jan S, Buvat I. Evolution of the GATE project: new results and developments. Nucl. Physics B 172 (2007) 101-103
  • Buvat I, Lazaro D. Monte Carlo simulations in emission tomography and GATE: an overview. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 569 (2006) 323-329
  • Karakatsanis N, Sakellios N, Tsantilas NX, Dikaios N, Tsoumpas C, Lazaro D, Loudos G, Schmidtlein CR, Louizi K, Valais J, Nikolopoulos D, Malamitsi J, Kandarakis J, Nikita K. Comparative evaluation of two commercial PET scanners, ECAT EXACT HR+ and Biograph 2, using GATE. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 571 (2006) 368-372
  • Lamare F, Turzo A, Bizais Y, Le Rest CC, Visvikis D. Validation of a Monte Carlo simulation of the Philips Allegro/GEMINI PET systems using GATE. Phys. Med. Biol. 51 (2006) 943-962
  • El Bitar Z, Lazaro D, Breton V, Hill D, Buvat I. Fully 3D Monte Carlo image reconstruction in SPECT using functional regions. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 569 (2006) 399-403
  • Taschereau R, Chow PL, Chatziioannou AF. Monte Carlo simulations of dose from microCT imaging procedures in a realistic mouse phantom. Med. Phys. 33 (2006) 216-224
  • Merheb C, Nicol S, Petegnief Y, Talbot JN, Buvat I. Assessment of the Mosaic animal PET system response using list-mode data for validation of GATE Monte Carlo modelling. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2006) 220-224/li>
  • Vandenberghe S, Daube-Witherspoon ME, Lewitt RM, Karp J. Fast reconstruction of 3D time-of-flight PET data by axial rebinning and transverse mashing. Phys. Med. Biol. 51 (2006) 1603-1621
  • Vandenberghe S, Van Holen R, Staelens S, Lemahieu I. System characteristics of SPECT with a slat collimated strip detector. Phys. Med. Biol. 51 (2006) 391-405
  • Vandenberghe S. Three-dimensional positron emission tomography imaging with 124I and 86Y. Nucl. Med. Comm. 27 (2006) 237-245
  • Vandenberghe S, Staelens S, Byrne C, Soares E, Lemahieu I, Glick S. Reconstruction of 2D PET data with Monte Carlo generated system matrix for generalized natural pixels. Phys. Med. Biol. 51 (2006) 3105-3125
  • Schmidtlein CR, Kirov AS, Bidaut LM, Nehmeh SA, Erdi YE, Ganin A, Stearns CW, McDaniel DL, Hamacher KA, Humm JL, Amols HI. Validation of GATE Monte Carlo simulations of the GE Advance/Discovery LS PET scanner. Med. Phys. 33 (2006) 198-208
  • Visvikis D, Lefevre T, Lamare F, Kontaxakis G, Santos A, Darambaravan D. Monte Carlo based performance assessment of different animal PET architectures using pixellated CZT detectors. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2006) 225-229
  • Visvikis D, Bardies M, Chiavassa S, Danford C, Kirov A, Lamare F, Maigne L, Staelens S, Taschereau R. Use of the GATE Monte Carlo package for dosimetry applications. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2006) 335-340
  • Staelens S, De Beenhouwer J, Kruecker D, Maigne L, Rannou F, Ferrer L, D'Asseler Y, Buvat I, Lemahieu I. GATE: improving the computational efficiency. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2006) 341-345
  • Staelens S, Vunckx K, De Beenhouwer J, Beekman F, D'Asseler Y, Nuyts J, Lemahieu I. GATE simulations for optimization of pinhole imaging. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2006) 359-363
  • Sakellios NG, Karali E, Lazaro D, Loudos GK, Nikita KS. Monte-Carlo simulation for scatter correction compensation studies in SPECT imaging using GATE software package. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 569 (2006) 404-408
  • Taschereau R, Chow PL, Cho JS, Chatziioannou AF. A microCT X-ray head model for spectra generation with Monte Carlo simulations. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2006) 373-377
  • Staelens S, Koole M, Vandenberghe S, D'Asseler Y, Lemahieu I, Van de Walle R. The geometric transfer function for a slat collimator mounted on a strip detector. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 52 (2005) 708-714
  • Staelens S, Santin G, Vandenberghe S, Strul D, Koole M, D'Asseler Y, Lemahieu I, Van de Walle R. Transmission imaging with a moving point source: influence of crystal thickness and collimator type. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 52 (2005) 166-173
  • Chung YH, Choi Y, Cho GS, Choe YS, Lee KH, Kim BT. Optimization of dual layer phoswich detector consisting of LSO and LuYAP for small animal PET. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 52 (2005) 217-221
  • Assié K, Gardin I, Vera P, Buvat I. Validation of the Monte Carlo simulator GATE for Indium 111 imaging. Phys. Med. Biol. 50 (2005) 3113-3125
  • Jan S, Comtat C, Strul D, Santin G, Trébossen R. Monte Carlo simulation for the ECAT EXACT HR+ system using GATE. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 52 (2005) 627-633
  • Lazaro D, El Bitar Z, Breton V, Hill D, Buvat I. Fully 3D Monte Carlo reconstruction in SPECT: a feasibility study. Phys. Med. Biol. 5050 (2005) 3739-3754
  • Autret D, Bitar A, Ferrer L, Lisbona A, Bardies M. Monte Carlo modeling of gamma cameras for I-131 imaging in targeted radiotherapy. Cancer Biother. Radiopharm. 20 (2005) 77-84
  • Assié K, Breton V, Buvat I, Comtat C, Jan S, Krieguer M, Lazaro D, Morel C, Rey M, Santin G, Simon L, Staelens S, Strul D, Vieira JM, Van de Walle R. Monte Carlo simulation in PET and SPECT instrumentation using GATE. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A527 (2004) 180-189
  • Chung YH, Choi Y, Cho G, Choe YS, Lee KH, Kim BT. Characterization of dual layer phoswich detector performance for small animal PET using Monte Carlo simulation. Phys. Med. Biol. 49 (2004) 2881-2890
  • Jan S, Santin G, Strul D, Staelens S, Assié K, Autret D, Avner S, Barbier R, Bardiès M, Bloomfield PM, Brasse D, Breton V, Bruyndonckx P, Buvat I, Chatziioannou AF, Choi Y, Chung YH, Comtat C, Donnarieix D, Ferrer L, Glick SJ, Groiselle CJ, Guez D, Honore PF, Kerhoas-Cavata S, Kirov AS, Kohli V, Koole M, Krieguer M, van der Laan DJ, Lamare F, Largeron G, Lartizien C, Lazaro D, Maas MC, Maigne L, Mayet F, Melot F, Merheb C, Pennacchio E, Perez J, Pietrzyk U, Rannou FR, Rey M, Schaart DR, Schmidtlein CR, Simon L, Song TY, Vieira JM, Visvikis D, Van de Walle R, Wiers E, Morel C. GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT. Phys. Med. Biol. 49 (2004) 4543-4561
  • Jung JH, Choi Y, Song TY, Chung YH, Jeong MH, Hong KJ, Min BJ, Choe YS, Lee KH, Kim BT. A computer simulation for small animal Iodine-125 SPECT development. Korean J. Nucl. Med. 38 (2004) 74-84
  • Lazaro D, Buvat I, Loudos G, Strul D, Santin G, Giokaris N, Donnarieix D, Maigne L, Spanoudaki V, Styliaris S, Staelens S, Breton V. Validation of the GATE Monte Carlo simulation platform for modelling a CsI(Tl) scintillation camera dedicated to small-animal imaging," Phys. Med. Biol. 49 (2004) 271-285
  • Lazaro D, Breton V, Buvat I. Feasibility and value of fully 3D Monte Carlo reconstruction in single-photon emission computed tomography. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. 527 (2004) 195-200
  • Rannou F, Kohli V, Prout D, Chatziioannou A. Investigation of OPET peformance using GATE, a Geant4-based simulation software. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 51 (2004) 2713-2717
  • Simon L, Strul D, Santin G, Krieguer M, Morel C. Simulation of time curves in small animal PET using GATE. Nucl. Instr. Meth.A527 (2004) 190-194
  • Santin G, Strul D, Lazaro D, Simon L, Krieguer M, Vieira M, Breton V, Morel C. GATE: A Geant4-based simulation platform for PET, SPECT integrating movement and time management. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50 (2003) 1516-1521
  • Staelens S, Strul D, Santin G, Vandenberghe S, Koole M, D'Asseler Y, Lemahieu I, Van de Walle R. Monte Carlo simulations of a scintillation camera using GATE: validation and application modelling. Phys. Med. Biol. 48 (2003) 3021-3042
  • Strul D, Santin G, Lazaro D, Breton V, Morel C. GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission): a PET/SPECT general-purpose simulation platform. Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 125 (2003) 75-79