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Body contour 180 degrees pinhole SPET with or without tilted detector: a phantom study
Seret, Alain; Flérès, David; Firket, Olivier et al.
2003In European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 30 (9), p. 1205-1210
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Keywords :
Body contour; Pinhole; SPET; Pinhole SPET; OSEM
Abstract :
[en] This study investigated the feasibility of ordered subsets expectation maximisation (OS-EM) reconstruction of 180 degrees pinhole single-photon emission tomography (SPET) acquired in body contour mode (variable distance between the detector and the axis of rotation for each projection) with or without a tilted detector head. Four non-circular orbits were designed bearing in mind the rotation radius and tilt angle values of previous pinhole SPET acquisitions in patients with circular orbits. The reconstructions were performed using a dedicated OS-EM algorithm. Reconstructed images of line and uniformity phantoms showed that the spatial and uniformity characteristics of the radioactive objects were preserved. In comparison with the circular orbits, the non-circular orbits allowed only a moderate gain (maximum 10%) in resolution. However, body contour pinhole SPET would significantly facilitate the camera set-up and in this way should decrease the camera set-up time, which is an important parameter in patient studies.
Disciplines :
Radiology, nuclear medicine & imaging
Author, co-author :
Seret, Alain ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Imagerie médicale expérimentale
Flérès, David;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > 2001-2002
Firket, Olivier;  Hôpital Erasme - Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > Service des Radioisotopes
Defrise, Michel ;  Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB > Division of Nuclear Medicine
Language :
English
Title :
Body contour 180 degrees pinhole SPET with or without tilted detector: a phantom study
Publication date :
September 2003
Journal title :
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
ISSN :
1619-7070
eISSN :
1619-7089
Publisher :
Springer, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
30
Issue :
9
Pages :
1205-1210
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. The authors thanks Springer-Verlag for allowing deposit of their final version on the ULg institutional repository.
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