DING Changji, MAO Benjiang, YUAN Yonggang, et al. GEANT4 simulation and imaging reconstruction by backprojection algorithm for Compton camera [J]. Nuclear techniques, 2015, 38(11): 110402
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DING Changji, MAO Benjiang, YUAN Yonggang, et al. GEANT4 simulation and imaging reconstruction by backprojection algorithm for Compton camera [J]. Nuclear techniques, 2015, 38(11): 110402 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2015.hjs.38.110402.
GEANT4 simulation and imaging reconstruction by backprojection algorithm for Compton camera
Background: Due to its imaging principle advantages and the development of detectors
nuclear electronics
Compton camera has once again put forward. Purpose: This study aims to build a Compton camera via Monte Carlo simulation and test its backprojection algorithm. Methods: By using Monte Carlo simulation software GEANT4
a Compton camera with stripes structure is designed and data for reconstruction image of source is read out. Backprojection imaging reconstruction algorithm is studied for getting the reconstruction of source. Results: Using backprojection algorithm and simulated Compton camera
when the distance between source and the scattering detector is 40 mm
the spatial resolution is FWHM=8.0 mm
angular resolution is 3° and γ photon imaging efficiency is 0.38%
which are better than most of the pinhole and coded aperture γ camera imaging. Conclusion: Because of the existence of large amount of data
Compton camera needs long calculation time for measuring data. The next step is improving simulated Compton camera to study its performance parameters
while the maximum likelihood algorithm could improve the spatial resolution of Compton camera. Abstract