DocumentCode
2610774
Title
Using GATE as a forward projector in iterative SPECT reconstruction
Author
Ghekiere, Tom ; De Beenhouwer, Jan ; Staelens, Steven
Author_Institution
Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, B-9000, Belgium
fYear
2008
fDate
19-25 Oct. 2008
Firstpage
611
Lastpage
615
Abstract
Images obtained with Tc-99m single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) are heavily degraded by scattered photons. A typical solution to correct for this is incorporating a scatter model into an iterative reconstruction algorithm.
Keywords
Analytical models; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Detectors; Electromagnetic scattering; Image reconstruction; Imaging phantoms; Particle scattering; Reconstruction algorithms; Single photon emission computed tomography;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location
Dresden, Germany
ISSN
1095-7863
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN
1095-7863
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774089
Filename
4774089
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