Fast implementations of reconstruction-based scatter compensation in fully 3D SPECT image reconstruction.

Abstract:

:Accurate scatter compensation in SPECT can be performed by modelling the scatter response function during the reconstruction process. This method is called reconstruction-based scatter compensation (RBSC). It has been shown that RBSC has a number of advantages over other methods of compensating for scatter, but using RBSC for fully 3D compensation has resulted in prohibitively long reconstruction times. In this work we propose two new methods that can be used in conjunction with existing methods to achieve marked reductions in RBSC reconstruction times. The first method, coarse-grid scatter modelling, significantly accelerates the scatter model by exploiting the fact that scatter is dominated by low-frequency information. The second method, intermittent RBSC, further accelerates the reconstruction process by limiting the number of iterations during which scatter is modelled. The fast implementations were evaluated using a Monte Carlo simulated experiment of the 3D MCAT phantom with 99mTc tracer, and also using experimentally acquired data with 201Tl tracer. Results indicated that these fast methods can reconstruct, with fully 3D compensation, images very similar to those obtained using standard RBSC methods, and in reconstruction times that are an order of magnitude shorter. Using these methods, fully 3D iterative reconstruction with RBSC can be performed well within the realm of clinically realistic times (under 10 minutes for 64 x 64 x 24 image reconstruction).

journal_name

Phys Med Biol

authors

Kadrmas DJ,Frey EC,Karimi SS,Tsui BM

doi

10.1088/0031-9155/43/4/014

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-04-01 00:00:00

pages

857-73

issue

4

eissn

0031-9155

issn

1361-6560

journal_volume

43

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