Analytical Cone Beam SPECT Reconstruction with Non-Uniform Attenuation

Author

Wen, Junhai ; Chen, Yunbin ; Wang, Li

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is one of the nuclear medical imaging techniques and widely used in the clinical applications. Cone-beam SPECT reconstruction can improve the photo density and spatial resolution of the reconstructed image. In this paper, based on our analytical fan-beam SPECT reconstruction formula with nonuniform attenuation and Feldkamp method, we present an analytical cone-beam SPECT reconstruction algorithm for the non-uniform attenuated Radon transform. The computer simulation experiments had demonstrated its accuracy and robustness.

Keywords

Radon transforms; image reconstruction; image resolution; medical image processing; single photon emission computed tomography; Feldkamp method; Radon transform; analytical cone beam SPECT reconstruction; fan-beam SPECT reconstruction; image reconstruction; nonuniform attenuation; nuclear medical imaging technique; photo density; single photon emission computed tomography; spatial resolution; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Attenuation; Biomedical imaging; Computer simulation; Image reconstruction; Reconstruction algorithms; Robustness; Single photon emission computed tomography; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162368

Filename

5162368