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Dear Jan,<br><br>
I think I already answered to your student but I will copy my answer here in case someone from the list has a similar question:<br><br>
By default, the units in the reconstructed images are basically count/voxel. The calibration factor (defined in the histogram) is to normalize the sensitivity image values in order to get the resulting images in kBq/mL or any meaningful value. One potential way to compute such factor is to use a uniform object such as a cylinder with uniform activity concentration which is known. From the estimated value in the reconstructed images and the known activity concentration, one could derive a calibration factor.<br>
The sensitivity image values are computed by projecting all the line of response of a normalization or histogram datafile (if provided) or all the available lines of response from the geometry (default). Due to the number of lines, the sensitivity image values tend to be rather high for usual systems (>1e5), resulting in very low reconstructed image values if the calibration factor is not fixed.<br><br>
Regarding the mailing-list, one must suscribe to it (either during registration or from this page:https://castor-project.org/mailing-list), and use the same email address used for the subscription in order to use it. There were however some issues with the mailing-list which caused several emails to be stucked.<br><br>
Best regards,<br>
Thibaut<br><br><br>
"Grahe, Jan" <<a href="mailto:jan.grahe@pmi.rwth-aachen.de">jan.grahe@pmi.rwth-aachen.de</a>> a écrit :</p>
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Could you help us answer a question regarding the reconstructed image units in CASToR?</p>
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Basically, a student of mine reconstructed a Monte-Carlo simulation of a NEMA IQ phantom which should exhibit activities from 5.3kBq/ml in the background to around 21.2kBq/ml in the hot spheres. The reconstruction is performed using CASToR with a voxel size of 2x2x2mm3.</p>
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When visualizing the reconstructed images in amide we obtain values in the hot spheres in the order of magnitude of 4e-4, but we do not know which unit the images have and whether they are dependent on the voxel size. The 4e-4 should match the input of 21.2kBq/ml if we did not make a mistake using either GATE or CASToR.</p>
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Therefore, how can we convert the values of the reconstructed images into values of activity per ml (kBq/ml)?</p>
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While we are asking about units, what is the unit of the sensitivity map? The sensitivity map has values of about 1e5-1e6.</p>
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Thanks for your help and best regards,</p>
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P.S.: Seems like my student cannot post to the mailing list, so I tried on his behalf. If you need the exact command line arguments, I will ask my student and deliver them subsequently.</p>
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