NDLI: The design and performance of a simultaneous transmission and emission tomography system

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Author	Gullberg, G.T. Morgan, H.T. Zeng, G.L. Christian, P.E. Di Bella, V.R. Chi-Hua Tung Maniawski, P.J. Yu-Lung Hsieh Datz, F.L.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	A commercial three-detector single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) system that enables simultaneous acquisition of transmission and emission data without increasing patient scanning time has been designed and manufactured. This system produces a reconstructed attenuation coefficient distribution that can be used to correct for photon attenuation in the emission reconstruction. The three detectors with fan-beam collimators are mounted to the gantry in a triangular arrangement. A transmission line source assembly was mounted at the focal line of one of the detectors and controlled to move in synchrony with the opposing fan-beam collimator. Data from transmission and emission sources at different energies were acquired in one detector, while the other two simultaneously acquired emission data. A transmission source of /sup 153/Gd was used with /sup 99m/Tc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals, and /sup 57/Co was used with /sup 201/Tl. Algorithms were developed to subtract crosstalk between transmission and emission energy windows in all three detectors. A transmission maximum-likelihood iterative algorithm was used to reconstruct the attenuation distribution, which was used in combination with an iterative maximum-likelihood expectation-maximization algorithm to compensate for the attenuation of the projection of the emission distribution. The results in phantom studies displayed greater uniformity of activity with attenuation-corrected reconstruction. This was demonstrated visually and quantitatively by using anterior-to-inferior ratios close to one and low spatial %rms error as a measure of improved uniformity.
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	1676
Ending Page	1698
Page Count	23
File Size	5102330
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-06-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Attenuation Detectors Collimators Iterative algorithms Maximum likelihood detection Computed tomography Manufacturing Single photon emission computed tomography Transmission lines Assembly
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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