Measuring the variation in radius of rotation as a function of gantry angle for ultra-high-resolution pinhole SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1236-1242

  Metzler, S D ^a,b   Patil, N H ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Calibration; Pinhole; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal; SPECT

Indexed keywords

PINHOLE SPECT; PROJECTION DATA; RADIUS OF ROTATION (ROR); SMALL ANIMAL;

ALIGNMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 29144477264     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.851417     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. R. H. Moore, H. Ohtani, B. A. Khaw, and H. W. Strauss, "High resolution pinhole sequence imaging of small laboratory animals," Cancer, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 987-987, 1991.
2. S.-E. Strand, M. Ivanovic, K. Erlandsson, D. Franceschi, T. Burton, K. Sjogren, and D. A. Weber, "Small animal imaging with pinhole single-photon emission computed tomography," Cancer, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 981-984, 1994.
3. D. A. Weber, M. Ivanovic, D. Franceschi, S.-E. Strand, K. Erlandsson, M. Franceschi, H. L. Atkins, J. A. Coderre, H. Susskind, T. Button, and K. Ljunggren, "Pinhole SPECT: An approach to in vivo high resolution SPECT imaging in small laboratory animals," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 342-348, 1994.
4. R. J. Jaszczak, J. Li, H. Wang, M. R. Zalutsky, and R. E. Coleman, "Pinhole collimation for ultra-high-resolution, small-field-of-view SPECT," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 39, pp. 425-437, 1994.
5. K. Ishizu, T. Mukai, Y. Yonekura, M. Pagani, T. Fujita, Y. Magata, S. Nishizawa, N. Tamaki, H. Shibasaki, and J. Konishi, "Ultra-high resolution SPECT system using four pinhole collimators for small animal studies," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 2282-2287, 1995.
6. P. M. Wanet, A. Sand, and J. Abramovici, "Physical and clinical evaluation of high-resolution thyroid pinhole tomography," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 2017-2020, 1996.
7. K. Ogawa, T. Kawade, K. Nakamura, A. Kubo, and T. Ichihara, "Ultra high resolution pinhole SPECT for small animal study," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 3122-3126, Dec. 1998.
8. M. C. Wu, H. R. Tang, J. W. O'Connell, D. W. Gao, A. Ido, A. J. Da Silva, K. Iwata, B. H. Hasegawa, and M. W. Dae, "An ultra high resolution ECG-gated myocardial imaging system for small animals," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 1199-1202, Aug. 1999.
9. M. C. Wu, H. R. Tang, D. W. Gao, A. Ido, J. W. O'Connell, B. H. Hasegawa, and M. W. Dae, "ECG-gated pinhole SPECT in mice with millimeter spatial resolution," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 1218-1221, Jun. 2000.
10. L. R. MacDonald, B. E. Patt, J. S. Iwanczyk, B. M. W. Tsui, Y. Wang, E. C. Frey, D. E. Wessell, P. D. Acton, and H. F. Kung, "Pinhole SPECT of mice using the LumaGEM gamma camera," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 830-836, Jun. 2001.
11. F. J. Beekman, D. P. McElroy, F. Berger, S. S. Gambhir, E. J. Hoffman, and S. R. Cherry SR, "Toward in vivo nuclear microscopy: 1-125 imaging in mice using micro-pinholes," Eur. J. Nucl. Med., vol. 29, no.-7. pp. 933-938, 2002.
12. P. D. Acton, S. R. Choi, K. Plössl, and H. F. Kung, "Quantification of dopamine transporters in the mouse brain using ultra-high resolution single-photon emission tomography," Eur. J. Nucl. Med., vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 691-698, 2002.
13. D. Bequé, J. Nuyts, G. Bormans, P. Suetens, and P. Dupont, "Characterization of pinhole SPECT acquisition geometry," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 599-612, May 2003.
14. J. Li, R. J. Jaszczak, K. L. Greer, and R. E. Coleman, "A filtered back-projection algorithm for pinhole SPECT with a displaced centre of rotation," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 39, pp. 165-176, 1994.
15. _, "Maximum likelihood reconstruction for pinhole SPECT with a displaced center of rotation," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 14, no. 2. pp. 407-409, Jun. 1995.
16. R. Accorsi and S. D. Metzler, "Analytic determination of the resolution-equivalent effective diameter of a pinhole collimator," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 750-763, Jun. 2004.
17. S. D. Metzler, J. E. Bowsher, M. F. Smith, and R. J. Jaszczak, "Analytic determination of pinhole collimator sensitivity with penetration," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 730-741, Aug. 2001.
18. S. D. Metzler, J. E. Bowsher, K. L. Greer, and R. J. Jaszczak, "Analytic determination of the pinhole collimator's point-spread function and RMS resolution with penetration," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 21, no. 8. pp. 878-887, Aug. 2002.
19. R. J. Jaszczak, J. Li, H. Wang, M. R. Zalutsky, and R. E. Coleman, "Pinhole collimation for ultra-high resolution, small-field-of-view SPECT," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 39, pp. 425-437, 1994.
20. S. D. Metzler, K. L. Greer, K. Bobkov, and R. J. Jaszczak, "Laser alignment system for helical pinhole SPECT," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 603-610, Jun. 2004.
21. S. D. Metzler, K. L. Greer, and R. J. Jaszczak, "Helical pinhole SPECT for small-animal imaging: A method for addressing sampling completeness," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1575-1583, Oct. 2003.
22. _, "Determination of mechanical and electronic shifts for pinhole SPECT using a single point source," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 24. no. 3, pp. 361-370, Mar. 2005.