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Phantom Image Evaluations Depending on the Quality Control-Uniformity of Brain Perfusion SPECT Scanner

뇌 관류 SPECT 스캐너의 정도관리-균일도에 따른 팬텀 영상 평가

  • Jung-Soo, Kim (Department of Radiological Science, Dongnam Health University) ;
  • Hyun-Jin, Yang (Department of Radiological Science, Dongnam Health University) ;
  • Joon, Kim (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Chan-Rok, Park (Department of Radiological Science, Eulji University)
  • 김정수 (동남보건대학교 방사선학과) ;
  • 양현진 (동남보건대학교 방사선학과) ;
  • 김준 (서울대학교병원 핵의학과) ;
  • 박찬록 (을지대학교 방사선학과 )
  • Received : 2022.11.12
  • Accepted : 2023.01.05
  • Published : 2023.02.28
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Abstract

To have highly reliable diagnostic performance of it, this study comparatively analyzed spatial resolution of SPECT images and interrelationship depending on the changes of system uniformity of ga㎜a camera through phantom analysis. This study chose 6 kinds of results from quality control (uniformity) of triple head SPECT scanner operated in an university hospital in Seoul for six months. Then, study measured spatial resolutions (FWHM) of the images restructured by injecting radiopharmaceuticals to Jaszczak phantom, and doing SPECT scanning under the same conditions as clinical ones using the analytical program (image J). Quality controls performed by the experimental institution showed that differential uniformity of UFOV ranged from 2.76% to 7.61% (4.46±2.07), and integral uniformity of UFOV ranged from 1.98% to 5.42% (3.01±1.43). Meanwhile, Quantitative analysis evaluations of phantom images depending on the changes of uniformity of SPECT scanner detector showed that as the uniformity values of UFOV and CFOV decreased, FWHM values of phantom images decreased from 8.5 ㎜ to 5.8 ㎜. That is, it was quantitatively identified that the higher uniformity of detector is, the better spatial resolution of images gets (P<0.05). It is very important to perform continuous and consistent quality control of the nuclear medicinal system, and users should be clearly conscious of it.

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This paper is supported by the research fund of Dongnam Health University.

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