NDLI: Simulation and Validation of Point Spread Functions in Pinhole SPECT Imaging

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Author	Funk, T. Kirch, D.L. Mingshan Sun Izaguirre, E.W. Koss, J.E. Prevrhal, S. Hasegawa, B.H.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	Modeling and assessment of point spread functions (PSFs) of pinhole collimators is essential for the design of small animal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging systems, and are gaining increasing importance with the advent of multipinhole imaging techniques. PSFs also can be used in resolution recovery methods implemented in reconstruction algorithms. Therefore, we have developed and validated a ray-tracing approach to calculate PSFs and absolute detection efficiency of pinhole collimators in radionuclide imaging. The PSFs were calculated for user defined pinhole and source geometries with multiple rays to account for collimator penetration. For validation we compared our simulations to analytical models, Monte Carlo simulations from literature, and experiments with ^{99 m}Tc sources using a variety of pinhole geometries including knife and keel edges. We find that shape and magnitude of the simulated PSFs are in very good agreement with analytical and experimental results. Importantly, our simulations show that the absolute detection efficiency of pinhole systems can be computed with an accuracy error of less than 10% using the ray-tracing approach. In contrast to Monte Carlo simulations ray-tracing simulations are computational very efficient and therefore very fast. In conclusion, we developed a ray-tracing method that calculates PSFs and detection efficiencies for different pinhole and source geometries quickly and reliably
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	2729
Ending Page	2735
Page Count	7
File Size	596809
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	53
Issue Number	5
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-10-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computational modeling Ray tracing Geometry Analytical models Optical collimators Animals Single photon emission computed tomography Reconstruction algorithms Solid modeling Shape single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) Monte Carlo simulations pinhole point spread function ray-tracing septal penetration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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