doiPET/include/doiPETGlobalParameters.hh

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0026 //GEANT4 - Depth-of-Interaction enabled Positron emission tomography (PET) advanced example
0027
0028 //Authors and contributors
0029
0030 // Author list to be updated, with names of co-authors and contributors from National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS)
0031
0032 // Abdella M. Ahmed (1, 2), Andrew Chacon (1, 2), Harley Rutherford (1, 2),
0033 // Hideaki Tashima (3), Go Akamatsu (3), Akram Mohammadi (3), Eiji Yoshida (3), Taiga Yamaya (3)
0034 // Susanna Guatelli (2), and Mitra Safavi-Naeini (1, 2)
0035
0036 // (1) Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
0037 // (2) University of Wollongong, Australia
0038 // (3) National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
0039
0040 //The header file consists of specification if the scanner geometry
0041
0042 //Number of crystals (scintillators) in the DOI (x), tangential (y) and axial (z) direction.
0043 #define numberOfCrystal_DOI 4
0044 #define numberOfCrystal_tangential 16
0045 #define numberOfCrystal_axial 16
0046
0047 //size of the crystals in the DOI (x), tangential (y) and axial (z) direction.
0048 #define sizeOfCrystal_DOI 7.5*mm
0049 #define sizeOfCrystal_tangential 2.8*mm
0050 #define sizeOfCrystal_axial 2.8*mm
0051
0052 //Inter crystal gap between crystals.
0053 #define crystalGap_DOI 0.0*mm
0054 #define crystalGap_tangential 0.08*mm
0055 #define crystalGap_axial 0.08*mm
0056
0057
0058
0059 //Define Aluminum thickness cover for the detector
0060 #define AluminumCoverThickness 0.3 * mm
0061
0062 //Number of PET detectors per ring
0063 #define numberOfDetector_perRing 40
0064
0065 //Number of rings in the PET system
0066 #define numberOfRings 4
0067
0068 //Radius of the PET system. Note that the radius is defined between to opposing sensitive detectors (It does not include detector block cover).
0069 #define scannerRadius 330 * mm
0070
0071 //Gap between two adjacent rings. There are three gaps in four ring PET system
0072 #define ringGap 10.4 * mm