PeneloPET WEB

We are pleased to announce the availability of a NEW RELEASE OF PENELOPET (v3.0)

This release is freely available under request to the authors.

New in this version:

  1. Time of Flight capabilities. Improved simulation of timing properties of scintillators and the decay process.
  2. Improved simulation of positron range in different materials
  3. Added many isotopes, including all common in PET acquisitions plus some non pure beta emitters. Detailed simulation of the multiple gamma emissions is included.
  4. Extended the possible geometry of the scanners, keeping the same simple syntax as in the previous peneloPET versions. This allows to simulate with little effort non standard geometris, such as PET inserts, detectors inside the FOV of the scanner and many more
  5. The effect of internal activity in the detectors due to Lu can be simulated in a very realistic way
  6. This release includes a library with many examples and figures, both for clinical and preclinical and non-standard geometry scanners.
  7. Additional documentation, articles and PhD describing this new release.
  8. Improved performance, based in newer version of penelope.

PeneloPET is a Monte Carlo code based on PENELOPE that provides the ability to perform realistic simulations for pixelated scintillator based PET scanners. PeneloPET has been developed by the Nuclear Physics Group of Universidad Complutense de Madrid

People interested in PeneloPET can send an email to penelopet[at]nuclear.fis.ucm.es specifing name, organization, purpose for PeneloPET (just two lines describing what you are interested in doing with PeneloPET). As mentioned, PeneloPET is based on PENELOPE code that you must get from Nuclear Energy Agency. Tell us the PENELOPE version that you have and we'll send you the PeneloPET code adapted for that version. You will be able to run the program on any operative system that have a FORTRAN 77 compiler. Just unzip the files and you are ready to run!.

Feel free to send any suggestions or doubts to penelopet[at]nuclear.fis.ucm.es. The documentation for PeneloPET with a few examples can be found here, some references describing PeneloPET are here