Title :
SPECT/CT registration with the DCC and MC simulations for SPECT imaging
Author :
Chatelain, Florent ; Desbat, Laurent ; Moreira, Jean François ; Amblard, Cécile ; Breton, Vincent
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Medecine, UMR CNRS, La Tronche, France
Abstract :
We want to perform the attenuation correction in the case of 3D attenuated ray transform with a parallel geometry. We suppose that the attenuation function is available but not registered with the data. We use the sum on each slice of the 2D data consistency conditions of the attenuated Radon transform to register the attenuation function with the data. We then correct for the attenuation using the Novikov formula. We show numerical experiments indicating the feasibility of the approach and propose a scheme including the diffusion correction for the registration of CT to SPECT for SPECT imaging improvement.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; Radon transforms; data integrity; image registration; medical image processing; single photon emission computed tomography; 2D data consistency conditions; CT registration; Monte Carlo simulations; Novikov formula; SPECT image registration; SPECT reconstruction; analytic inversion formula; attenuated Radon transform; attenuation correction; diffusion correction; Attenuation; Computed tomography; Detectors; Geometry; Image reconstruction; Linear predictive coding; Monte Carlo methods; Scattering; Yield estimation;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8700-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1082-3654
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1466652