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Flag 1
Determine whether on-line printout and results will be written to the terminal during the
actual simulation. This flag should be turned off when submitting a command procedure
to a batch queue.
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Flag 2
Determine whether a binary image file [*.bim] that will store a calculated planar image
should be created. The actual calculation of the matrix is not affected by this flag.
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Flag 3
Determine whether a binary energy pulse-height distribution file [*.bis] should be
created. As for Flag 2, this does not affect the calculation of the different detector
parameters that are derived from the energy spectra.
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Flag 4
Include simulation of a scintillation camera collimator. The values in Indices 45- 53 of
the GENERAL DATA menu are thus incorporated into
SIMIND.
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Flag 5
Determine if a SPECT simulation will be done. If this flag is set then the total number of
photon histories in the SPECT simulation will be the number of photon histories per
projection multiplied by the number of projection angles. Invoking Flag 5 sets Flag 2 to
FALSE.
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Flag 6
Include simulation of characteristic K-a x-ray photons emitted from a photoelectric
absorption site in the crystal.
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Flag 7
Include a volume behind the crystal to simulate scattering in light guides and PMT. The
thickness is given by index 11. The number of scatter order is default 3 and can be
change by editing the block data section in SIMIND.for
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Flag 8
Controls the sequence of the random number generator. If set to FALSE, then the same
initial seed will be used. In this case, no statistical differences will be noticed between
different simulations of identical imaging systems. This function is valuable when tracing
errors. For a normal procedure, the flag should, however, be set to TRUE.
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Flag 9
Simulation of transmission SPECT Imaging. Transmission simulations require an image-
based phantom to work.
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Flag 10
This option includes the simulation of the protection cover. The cover is defined by its
cross-section file [in the MAIN MENU of
CHANGE] and the thickness of the layer [index
13].
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Flag 11
This option takes into account the simulation of the phantom. The dimensions of the
phantom are given by index's 5-7 or if index 14 is negative, index's 31- 38. Be sure to
have a valid file name for the non-homogeneous phantom file when setting index 14 to a
negative number.
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Flag 12
This flag incorporates the energy resolution and the intrinsic spatial resolution into
action in the simulation. The actual values for the system are defined by indices 22 and
23. If this flag is reset, then the energy pulse-height spectra will reflect the imparted
energy in the scintillation crystal and not counts from simulated scintillation light that
may be affected by statistical fluctuations.
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Flag 13
This option forces the photons to interact in the crystal by invoking variance reduction
techniques. This option is useful when simulating high energy photons that are impinging
on thin crystals or when simulating a low-density detector. The calculated detector
parameter is not affected by this option since the weight of each photon is adjusted for
the forced interaction.
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Flag 14
If this flag is true then the files storing the image and the SPECT projection data will
have a header of the Interfile version 3.3 format. This format has been developed to
establish a way of communicate between different nuclear medicine units. The specific
SIMIND parameters has a prefix of ;# and is thus treated as comments by an external
system.
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Flag 15
If this flag is true then a file of the phantom is stored that is re-sampled to the pixel
size and slice thickness for the corresponding SPECT image. The base name for the file
is the same as the density map file [Index 14 in the main menue] he content in the file
are in units of density and times 1000. The extension is *.ict for the actual images and
*.hct for the interfile header. Note that these files is only created if
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voxel-based phantoms are used and
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the flag 11 allow for interaction in the phantom is set to true
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