Simulation study of respiratory-induced errors in cardiac positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2888-2895

  Fitzpatrick, Gianna M ^a   Wells, R Glenn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Attenuation correction (AC); Cardiac; Computed tomography (CT); Monte Carlo simulation; Positron emission tomography (PET); Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ELECTRONS; HEART; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; PHASE MATCHING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CARDIAC; FAST DATA ACQUISITION; METABOLIC INFORMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM 68; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG; HEART DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; TIME;

EID: 33746597791     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2211708     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. A. Wielgosz, "The growing burden of heart disease and stroke in Canada, 2003," Health Canada; Statistics Canada (Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2003).
2. H. Zaidi and B. Hasegawa, "Determination of the attenuation map in emission tomography," J. Nucl. Med. 44, 291-315 (2003).
3. P. Kinahan, B. Hasegawa, and T. Beyer, "X-ray based attenuation correction for positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners," Semin Nucl. Med. 33, 166-179 (2003).
4. G. Goerres, C. Burger, E. Kamal, B. Seirfet, A. Kaim, A. Buck, T. Buehler, and G. Schulthess, "Respiration-induced attenuation artifacts at PET/CT: Technical considerations," Radiology 226, 906-910 (2003).
5. M. Osman, C. Cohade, Y. Nakamoto, and R. Wahl, "Respiratory motion artifacts on PET emission images obtained using CT attenuation correction on PET-CT," Eur. J. Nucl. Med. 30, 603-606 (2003).
6. T. Pan, O. Mawlawi, S. Nehmeh, Y. Erdi, D. Luo, H. Liu, R. Castillo, R. Mohan, Z. Liao, and H. Macapinlac, "Attenuation correction of PET images with respiration-averaged CT images in PET/CT," J. Nucl. Med. 46, 1481-1487 (2005).
7. T. DesJardins, Cardiopulmonary Anatomy and Physiology, 4th Ed. (Delmar Thomson Learning Inc., New York, 2002).
8. C. Stone, J. McCormick, D. Gilland, K. Greer, R. Coleman, and R. Jaszczak, "Effect of registration errors between transmission and emission scans on a SPECT system using sequential scanning," J. Nucl. Med. 39, 365-373 (1998).
9. M. McCord, S. Bacharach, R. Bonow, V. Dilsizian, A. Cuoccolo, and N. Freeman, "Misalignment between PET transmission and emission scans: Its effect on myocardial imaging," J. Nucl. Med. 33, 1209-1214 (1992).
10. B. Chin, Y. Nakamoto, D. Kraitchman, L. Marshall, and R. Wahl, "PET-CT evaluation of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose myocardial uptake: Effect of respiratory motion," Mol. Imag. Bio. 5, 57-64 (2003).
11. R. Wassenaar, R. G. Wells, and R. deKemp, "Clinical evaluation of CT versus Ge-68 attenuation correction in cardiac PET imaging," J. Nucl. Med. 45, 118P (2004).
12. W. Segars and B. Tsui, "Study of the efficacy of respiratory gating in myocardial SPECT using the new 4D NCAT Phantom," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 49, 675-679 (2002).
13. 18F-FDG," J. Nucl. Med. 43, 210-214 (2002).
14. D. Haynor, R. Harrison, and T. Lewellen, "The use of importance sampling techniques to improve the efficiency of photon tracking in emission tomography," Med. Phys. 18, 990-1001 (1991).
15. G. Saab, R. deKemp, K. Ukkonen, T. Ruddy, G. Germano, and R. Beanlands, "Gated fluorine 18 flurodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography: Determination of global and regional left ventricular function and myocardial tissue characterization," J. Nucl. Cardiol. 10, 297-303 (2003).
16. M. Cerqueira, N. Weissman, V. Dilsizian, A. Jacobs, S. Kaul, W. Laskey, D. Pennel, J. Rumberger, T. Ryan, and M. Verani, "Standardized myocardial segmentation and nomenclature for tomographic imaging of the heart," Circulation 105, 539-542 (2002).
17. T. Pan, T. Lee, E. Rietzal, and G. Chen, "4D-CT imaging of a volume influenced by respiratory motion on multi-slice CT," Med. Phys. 31, 333-340 (2004).
18. G. Porenta, W. Kuhlw, J. Czernin, O. Ratib, R. Brunken, M. Phelps, and H. Schelbert, "Semiquantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow and viability using polar map displays of cardiac pet images," J. Nucl. Med. 33, 1628-1636 (1992).
19. F. Haas, N. Augustin, K. Holper, M. Wottke, C. Haehnel, S. Nekolla, H. Meisner, R. Lange, and M. Shwaiger, "Time course and extent of improvement of dysfunctioning myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease and severely depressed left ventricular function after revascularization: correlation with positron emission tomographic findings," J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 36, 1927-1934 (2000).
20. L. Boucher, S. Rodrigue, R. Lecomte, and F. Benard, "Respiratory gating for 3-dimensional PET of the thorax: Feasibility and initial results," J. Nucl. Med. 45, 214-219 (2004).
21. R. Huesman, G. Klein, and B. Reutter, "Respiratory compensation in cardiac PET using doubly-gated acquisitions," J. Nucl. Med. 38, 114P (1997).
22. B. Thorndyke, E. Shreibmann, P. Maxim, B. Loo, A. Boyer, A. Koong, and L. Xing, "Enhancing 4D PET through retrospective stacking," Med. Phys. 32, 2096P (2005).
23. L. Livieratos, L. Stegger, P. Bloomfield, K. Schafers, D. Bailey, and P. Camici, "Rigid-body transformation of list-mode projection data for respiratory motion correction in cardiac PET," Phys. Med. Biol. 50, 3313-3322 (2005).