Local identification and removal of scatter artefacts based on the temporal information in dynamic SPECT images

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 762-765

  Toennies, Klaus D ^a   Prang, Claudia ^a   Celler, Anna ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCATTER ARTIFACTS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); TIME ACTIVITY CURVES (TAC);

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 10044246046     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334640     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. King MA, et al. A Monte Carlo investigation of artefacts caused by liver uptake in single-photon emission tomography perfusion imaging with technetium 99m-labeled agents. J Nucl Cardiol, 3, pp. 18-29, 1996.
2. Buvat I, et al. Comparative assessment of nine scatter correction methods based on spectral analysis using Monte Carlo simulations. J Nucl Med, 36, pp.1476-1488, 1995.
3. Beekman FJ, et al. Efficient fully 3-d iterative SPECT reconstruction with Monte-Carlo-based scatter correction. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 21, pp-867-877, 2002.
4. Vandervoort E, et al. Implementation of an analytically based scatter correction in SPECT reconstruction. 2003 IEEE Nucl Sci Symp and Med Imaging Conf. October 2003.
5. Sitek A, et al. Removal of liver activity contamination in teboroxime dynamic cardiac SPECT imaging with the use of factor analysis. J Nucl. Cardiol., 9(2), pp. 197-205, 2002.
6. Farncombe T, et al. Dynamic SPECT imaging using single camera rotations (dSPECT), IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 46, pp.1055-1061, 1999.
7. Celler A et al. Performance of the dynamic single photon emission computed tomography (dSPECT) method for decreasing or increasing activity changes, Phys Med Biol, 45, pp.3525-3544, 2000.
8. Toennies KD et al. Scatter segmentation in dynamic SPECT images using principal component analysis. Proc SPIE,. 2003.