NDLI: Improvement of myocardial perfusion defect severity quantitation in cardiac SPECT: A simulation study

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Author	Hughes, T. Shcherbinin, S. Celler, A.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Medical Imaging Research Group, Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Shcherbinin, S.; Celler, A.) \|\| Medical Imaging Research Group, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Hughes, T.)
Abstract	We aim at improving the quantitative assessment of the severity of myocardial perfusion defects in cardiac SPECT imaging. The idea of a numerical heart template is utilized, which enables a patient specific measurement of defect severity as opposed to the more traditional population-based approaches. Using NCAT we developed three male thorax phantoms with different orientations and sizes of the left ventricle. Each heart contained a small (5%) inferior wall defect with a severity of 20-80%. The SimSET code was used to perform 21 simulations modeling cardiac SPECT acquisitions with a Tc-99m radiotracer, LEHR collimator, 64×64 matrix, and 60 camera stops. A conventional method (CM) of defect severity assessment included the MLEM reconstruction with 40 iterations and a calculation of the ratio, RCM, of the average activity concentrations in the defect and the normal heart. Our template method (TM) calculates a new ratio, RTM, which is a correction to RCM by rescaling it between two reference levels corresponding to a completely non-perfused defect and a healthy myocardium. These levels are calculated by projecting and reconstructing two numerical heart templates (may be based on CT in clinical studies) with activity ratios in defect to normal heart set to zero and unity, respectively. The proposed TM method was more accurate and more sensitive to small changes in defect severity than CM. While CM showed no defect (RCM was equal to 0.98-1.02) in the case with 20% severity (true ratio is 0.8), TM led to RTM values of 0.84-0.92. On average, our TM technique exhibited a 17% improvement in defect to normal ratios relative the CM method. Our proposed method offers a patient-specific assessment of perfusion defect severity in SPECT without the limitations intrinsic to traditional methodologies (e.g. extreme heart geometries).
Starting Page	2839
Ending Page	2841
File Size	479987
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424439614
ISSN	10957863
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401640
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-10-24
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Myocardium Heart Imaging phantoms Image databases Spatial databases Computed tomography Geometry Thorax Collimators Cameras
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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