The design and manufacture of an annular variable-focusing collimator for highsensitivity brain SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2613-2618

  Ouyang, Jinsong ^a,b   El Fakhri, Georges ^a,b   Xia, Weishi ^d   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^b,c   Genna, Sebastian ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Digital Scintigraphics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular brain SPECT; CeraSPECT; SensOgrade collimator; Variable focusing collimator

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC IMAGING; HIGHSENSITIVITY BRAIN SPECT; THREE-SEGMENT PARALLEL-HOLE COLLIMATOR;

BRAIN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 33750400269     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.877151     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. K. A. Johnson, K. Jones, B. L. Holman, J. A. Becker, P. A. Spiers, A. Satlin, and M. S. Albert, "Preclinical prediction of Alzheimer's diease using SPECT," Neurology, vol. 50, pp. 1563-1571, 1998.
2. A. J. Fischman, A. A. Bonab, J. W. Babich, E. P. Palmer, N. M. Alpert, D. R. Elmaleh, R. J. Callahan, S. A. Barrow, W. Graham, P. C. Meltzer, R. N. Hanson, and B. K. Madras, "Rapic deletion of Parkinson's disease by SPECT with altropane: A selective ligand for dopamine transporters," Synapse, vol. 29, pp. 128-141, 1998.
3. R. B. Innis, J. P. Seiby, B. E. Scanley, M. Laruelle, A. Abi-Dargham, E. Wallace, R. M. Baldwin, Y. Zea-Ponce, S. Zoghbi, S. Wang, Y. Gao, and J. L. Neumeyer, "Single-photon emission computer tomographic imaging demonstrates loss of striatal dopamine transporters in Parkinson disease," in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1993, vol. 90, pp. 11965-11969.
4. S. Asenbaum, T. Brücke, W. Pirker, I. Podreka, P. Angelberger, S. Wenger, C. Wöber, C. Müller, and L. Deecke, "Imaging of dopamine transporters with Iodine-123-β-CIT and SPECT in Parkinson's disease," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 38, pp. 1-6, 1997.
5. 123I]FP-CIT SPECT shows a pronounced decline of striatal dopamine transporter labelling in early and advanced Parkinson's disease," J. New. Neurosurg. Psych., vol. 62, pp. 133-140, 1997.
6. 123 I] β-CIT SPECT is a useful method for monitoring dopaminergic degeneration in early stage Parkinson's disease," J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psych., vol. 74, pp. 294-298, 2003.
7. 123I] β-CIT SPECT imaging demonstrates reduced density of striatal dopamine transporters in Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy," Move. Disord., vol. 16, pp. 1023-1032, 2001.
8. T. Ishikawa, V. Dhawan, K. Kazumata, T. Chaly, F. Mandel, J. Neumeyer, C. Margouleff, B. Babchyck, I. Zanzi, and D. Eidelberg, "Comparative nigrostriatal dopaminergic imaging with iodine- 123-β CIT-FP/SPECT and fluorine-18-FDOPA/PET," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 37, pp. 1760-1765, 1996.
9. M. Ichise, H. Toyama, L. Fornazzari, J. R. Ballinger, and J. C. Krish, "Iodine-123-IBZM Dopamine D2 receptor and Technetium-99m-HMPAO brain perfusion SPECT in the evaluation of patients with and subjects at risk for Huntington's disease," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 34, pp. 1274-1281, 1993.
10. S. V. Faraone and J. Biederman, "Neurobiology of attenuation-deficit hyperactivity disorder," Biol. Psych., vol. 44, pp. 951-958, 1998.
11. S. P. Mueller, M. F. Kijewski, C. Kappeler, and S. C. Moore, "Estimation performance at low SNR: Predictions of the barankin bound, in medical imaging: physics of medical imaging," in Proc. SPIE, 1995, pp. 152-166.
12. S. P. Muller, F. J. Rybicki, C. K. Abbey, S. C. Moore, and M. F. Kijewski, "Chi-squared isocontours: Predictors of task performance in nonlinear estimation tasks at low SNR," in Proc. SPIE, 1997, pp. 176-187.
13. R. J. Jaszczak, L. T. Chang, and P. H. Murphy, "Single photon-emission computer-tomography using multi-slice fan beam collimators," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 26, pp. 610-618, 1979.
14. C. B. Lim, L. T. Chang, and R. J. Jaszczak, "Performance analysis of 3 camera configurations for single photon-emission computer-tomography," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 27, pp. 559-568, 1980.
15. B. M. W. Tsui, G. T. Gullberg, E. R. Edgerton, D. R. Gilland, J. R. Perry, and W. H. McCartney, "Design and clinical utility of a fan beam collimator for SPECT imaging of the head," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 27, pp. 810-819, 1986.
16. R. J. Jaszczak, C. E. Floyd, S. H. Manglos, K. L. Greer, and R. E. Coleman, "Cone beam collimation for single photon-emission computer-tomography-analysis, simulation, and image-reconstruction using filtered backprojection," Med. Phys., vol. 13, pp. 484-489, 1986.
17. E. G. Hawman and J. Hsieh, "An asitgmatic collimator for high-sensitivity SPECT of the brain," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 27, p. 930, 1986.
18. R. J. Jaszczak, K. L. Greer, and R. E. Coleman, "SPECT using a specially dsigned cone beam collimator," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 29, pp. 1398-1405, 1988.
19. J. Y. Li, R. J. Jaszczak, A. VanMullekom, C. Scarfone, K. L. Greer, and R. E. Coleman, "Half-cone beam collimation for triple-camera SPECT systems," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 37, pp. 498-502, 1996.
20. C. Kamphuis and F. J. Beekman, "The use of offset cone-beam collimators in a dual head system for combined emission transmission brain SPECT: A feasibility study," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 45, pp. 1250-1254, 1998.
21. D. S. Lalush, "Dual-planar circular-orbit cone-beam SPECT," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 39, p. 22P, 1998.
22. H. Hattori, "Emission computed tomography," USA Patent 4 389 569, Jun. 21, 1983.
23. M. F. Kijewski, S. P. Müller, and S. C. Moore, "Nonuniform collimator sensitivity: Improved precision for quantitative SPECT," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 38, pp. 151-156, 1997.
24. S. Genna and A. P. Smith, "The development of ASPECT, an annular single crystal brain camera for high efficiency SPECT," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 35, pp. 654-658, 1988.
25. A. P. Smith and S. Genna, "Acquisition and calibration principles for ASPECT - A SPECT camera using digital position analysis," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 35, pp. 740-743, 1988.
26. M. F. Kijewski, S. C. Moore, H. Jadvar, R. E. Zimmerman, and S. P. Muller, "Effects of SPECT collimation and system geometry on classification tasks related to Parkinson's disease," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 48, pp. 734-738, 2001.
27. G. El Fakhri, J. Ouyang, R. E. Zimmerman, A. J. Fischman, and M. F. Kijewski, "Performance of a novel collimator for high-sensitivity brain SPECT," Med. Phys., vol. 33, pp. 209-215, 2006.