Affiliations 

  • 1 Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • 2 Hospital Pulau Pinang
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Abstract

The objective of this study was to compare the acquired image of teflon, human bone equivalent material on a Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scanner with Monte Carlo simulation (MCNP). The cylindrical shape teflon phantom with dimensions of 19.5 cm length and 5.0 cm diameter was used for imaging with different settings of kilovolts (kV) and milliamperes (mA) of PET/CT. In this simulation, the photon flux in each pixel was accumulated by the Flux Image Radiograph (FIR) tally as flux image detectors and the image was plotted using Microsoft Office Excel. Results show that MCNP image was comparable with that of CT image and the obtained MCNP image depends on pixels size of the FIR tally.