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Title
Performance of an ideal attenuation and scatter correction strategy for a next-generation SPECT system dedicated to quantitative clinical brain imaging
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Abstract
A next-generation, adaptive, multi-pinhole system, AdaptiSPECT-C, dedicated to SPECT brain imaging is currently under development in our research team. Attenuation and scatter correction have proven to be critical to enhance image quality and quantification for brain imaging. The motivation for this investigation was to determine the enhancement in image quality by adding scatter correction strategy in addition to attenuation correction for brain imaging with AdaptiSPECT-C. An ideal scatter correction strategy was investigated in this GATE simulation study using a brain perfusion phantom and compared to the reference case for which an air attenuation medium was considered. We demonstrated that the use of the attenuation and the ideal scatter correction strategy significantly enhanced the imaging performance of AdaptiSPECT-C in case of clinical I-123 brain perfusion imaging. In addition, our study concluded that the use of an attenuation correction without compensating for scatter strongly degrades the contrast of the reconstruction, despite a quantitative improvement compared to the case for which no correction was used.
Language
English
Source (journal)
2019 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE (NSS/MIC)
Source (book)
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), OCT 26-NOV 02, 2019, Manchester, ENGLAND
Publication
New york : Ieee , 2019
ISBN
978-1-72814-164-0
DOI
10.1109/NSS/MIC42101.2019.9059942
Volume/pages
(2019) , 3 p.
ISI
000569982800334
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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