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Table 8 The total counts normalised to acquisition time and phantom activity for the two emission window images (EM1 and EM2) of the \(^{177}\)Lu phantoms with standard uncertainties

From: Quantitative validation of Monte Carlo SPECT simulation: application to a Mediso AnyScan GATE simulation

Isotope

Phantom

Window

Sensitivity (counts/(s\(\times\)MBq))

Sensitivity ratio

   

Simulation

Experiment

(Sim/Exp)

\(^{177}\)Lu

Cylinder

EM1

7.63 ± 0.16

8.632 ± 0.043

0.884 ± 0.020

  

SC1

1.369 ± 0.049

1.647 ± 0.008

0.831 ± 0.030

  

SC2

1.094 ± 0.042

1.160 ± 0.006

0.943 ± 0.037

  

EM2

7.15 ± 0.17

8.664 ± 0.043

0.825 ± 0.020

  

SC3

0.925 ± 0.040

1.201 ± 0.006

0.770 ± 0.034

  

SC4

0.140 ± 0.006

0.226 ± 0.001

0.622 ± 0.026

\(^{177}\)Lu

NEMA

EM1

6.27 ± 0.14

6.889 ± 0.035

0.910 ± 0.020

  

SC1

1.385 ± 0.05

1.655 ± 0.009

0.837 ± 0.031

  

SC2

0.999 ± 0.039

1.077 ± 0.006

0.928 ± 0.036

  

EM2

5.36 ± 0.13

6.275 ± 0.032

0.855 ± 0.021

  

SC3

0.975 ± 0.043

1.179 ± 0.006

0.827 ± 0.037

  

SC4

0.184 ± 0.008

0.197 ± 0.001

0.935 ± 0.039

  1. The last column gives the sensitivity ratio (simulation/experiment) which was used to normalise the simulation for the sinogram and profile validation