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Development of Unmatched System Model for Iterative Image Reconstruction for Pinhole Collimator of Imaging Systems in Nuclear Medicine  

Bae, Jae-Keon (Department of Radiologic Science, College of Health Science, Korea University)
Bae, Seung-Bin (Department of Radiologic Science, College of Health Science, Korea University)
Lee, Ki-Sung (Department of Radiologic Science, College of Health Science, Korea University)
Kim, Yong-Kwon (Department of Radiologic Science, College of Health Science, Korea University)
Joung, Jin-Hun (Department of Radiologic Science, College of Health Science, Korea University)
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Journal of radiological science and technology / v.35, no.4, 2012 , pp. 353-360 More about this Journal
Abstract
Diverse designs of collimator have been applied to Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) according to the purpose of acquisition; thus, it is necessary to reflect geometric characteristic of each collimator for successive image reconstruction. This study carry out reconstruction algorithm for imaging system in nuclear medicine with pinhole collimator. Especially, we study to solve sampling problem which caused in the system model of pinhole collimator. System model for a maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) was developed based on the geometry of the collimator. The projector and back-projector were separately implemented based on the ray-driven and voxel-driven methods, respectively, to overcome sparse sampling problem. We perform phantom study for pinhole collimator by using geant4 application for tomographic emission(GATE) simulation tool. The reconstructed images show promising results. Designed iterative reconstruction algorithm with unmatched system model effective to remove sampling problem artefact. Proposed algorithm can be used not only for pinhole collimator but also for various collimator system of imaging system in nuclear medicine.
Keywords
Pinhole collimator; System model; Gamma imaging system; ML-EM; Iterative image reconstruction;
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