The estimation of attenuation maps for cardiac-SPECT using cone-beam imaging of high-energy photons through parallel-hole collimators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2699-2704

  Feng, Bing ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Bruyant, Philippe P ^a   Beach, Richard D ^a   Boening, Guido ^a   Jarkewicz, Gary ^c   Cochoff, Steve ^c   Gagnon, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast cone beam transmission imaging system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCIES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; ROTATION; SCANNING;

ATTENUATION MAPS; FAST CONE-BEAM TRANSMISSION IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL-HOLE COLLIMATORS; RADII-OF-ROTATION (ROR);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 8344243893     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.834828     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. R. I. Jaszczak, D. R. Gilland, M. W. Turkington, K. L. Greer, and R. E. Coleman, "Fast transmission CT for determining: attenuation maps using a collimated line source, rotatable air-copper-lead attenuators and fan-beam collimation," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 34, pp. 1577-1586, 1993.
2. G. L. Zeng, G. T. Gollberg, P. E. Christian, D. Gagnon, and C. H. Tung, "Asymmetric cone-beam transmission tomography," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 48, pp. 117-124, 2001.
3. D. S. Lalush, "Dual-planar circular-orbit cone-beam SPECT," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 39, pp. 22P-22P, 1998.
4. D. Gagnon, C. H. Tung, G. L. Zeng, and W. Hawkins, "Design and early testing of a new medium-energy transmission device for attenuation: correction in SPECT and PET," in Conf. Rec. 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symp., Seattle, WA, Oct. 24-30.
5. B. D. Smith, "Image reconstruction from cone-beam projections: Necessary and sufficient conditions and reconstruction methods," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. MI-4, pp. 14-28, 1985.
6. G. L. Zeng, G. T. Gullberg, and S. A. Foresti, "Eigen analysis of cone-beam scanning geometries," in Three-Dimensional Imaging Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, ser. Computational Imaging and Vision Series, P. Grangeat and J.-L. Amans. Eds. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic, 1996, pp. 75-86.
7. G. L. Zeng and G. X. Gullberg, "Unmatched projector/backprojector pairs in an iterative reconstruction algorithm," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 19, pp. 548-555, 2000.
8. K. E. Atkinson, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1987.
9. G. L. Zeng and G. T. Gullberg, "Helical SPECT using axially truncated data," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 46, pp. 2111-2118, 1999.
10. G. L. Zeng, G. T. Gullberg, P. Christian, and D. Gagnon, "Cone-beam iterative reconstruction of a segment of a long object," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 49, pp. 37-41, 2002.
11. P. J. Green, "Bayesian reconstruction from emission tomography data using a modified EM algorithm," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 9, pp. 84-93, 1990.
12. D. S. Luo, T. S. Pan, M. A. King, and W. Xia, "Investigation of the use of conjugate views to correct for truncation in SPECT [abstract]," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 36, pp. 40P-40P, 1995.
13. D. A. Weber, K. F. Eckerman, L. T. Dillman, and J. C. Ryman, MIRD: Radionuclide Data and Decay Schemes: The Society of Nuclear Medicine, 1989.
14. M. A. King, D. S. Luo, S. T. Dahlberg, B. J. Villegas, B. C. Penney, and H. T. Morgan, "Transmission imaging of large attenuators using a slant hole collimator on a 3-headed SPECTA system," Med. Phys., vol. 23, pp. 263-272, 1996.