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List-mode-based reconstruction for respiratory motion correction in PET using non-rigid body transformations.

Abstract：

:Respiratory motion in emission tomography leads to reduced image quality. Developed correction methodology has been concentrating on the use of respiratory synchronized acquisitions leading to gated frames. Such frames, however, are of low signal-to-noise ratio as a result of containing reduced statistics. In this work, we describe the implementation of an elastic transformation within a list-mode-based reconstruction for the correction of respiratory motion over the thorax, allowing the use of all data available throughout a respiratory motion average acquisition. The developed algorithm was evaluated using datasets of the NCAT phantom generated at different points throughout the respiratory cycle. List-mode-data-based PET-simulated frames were subsequently produced by combining the NCAT datasets with Monte Carlo simulation. A non-rigid registration algorithm based on B-spline basis functions was employed to derive transformation parameters accounting for the respiratory motion using the NCAT dynamic CT images. The displacement matrices derived were subsequently applied during the image reconstruction of the original emission list mode data. Two different implementations for the incorporation of the elastic transformations within the one-pass list mode EM (OPL-EM) algorithm were developed and evaluated. The corrected images were compared with those produced using an affine transformation of list mode data prior to reconstruction, as well as with uncorrected respiratory motion average images. Results demonstrate that although both correction techniques considered lead to significant improvements in accounting for respiratory motion artefacts in the lung fields, the elastic-transformation-based correction leads to a more uniform improvement across the lungs for different lesion sizes and locations.

journal_name

Phys Med Biol

journal_title

Physics in medicine and biology

authors

Lamare F,Ledesma Carbayo MJ,Cresson T,Kontaxakis G,Santos A,Le Rest CC,Reader AJ,Visvikis D

doi

10.1088/0031-9155/52/17/006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-09-07 00:00:00

pages

5187-204

issue

eissn

0031-9155

issn

1361-6560

pii

S0031-9155(07)46151-6

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List-mode-based reconstruction for respiratory motion correction in PET using non-rigid body transformations.