Title of article :
Assessment of the impact of applying attenuation correction on the accuracy of activity recovery in Tc99m-ECD brain SPECT of healthy subject using Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
Author/Authors :
وداعي، فايزه نويسنده 1Department of Nuclear Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Vedaei, Faezeh , كمالي اصل، عليرضا نويسنده دانشكده مهندسي هسته اي،دانشگاه شهيد بهشتي تهران Kamali Asl, Alireza , كلانتري، فراز نويسنده Research Institute for Nuclear medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Kalantari, Faraz , انصاري ، مجتبي نويسنده ansari, mojtaba , آي، محمدرضا نويسنده دانشگاه علوم پزشكي تهران: مركز تحقيقات علوم و تكنولوژي در پزشكي تهران Ay, Mohammad Rreza
Issue Information :
فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی 36 سال 2011
Abstract :
Introduction: Photon attenuation in tissues is the primary physical degrading factor limiting both visual
qualitative interpretation and quantitative analysis capabilities of reconstructed Single Photon Emission
Computed Tomography (SPECT) images. The aim of present study was to investigate the effect of attenuation
correction on the detection of activation foci following statistical analysis with SPM.
Methods: The study population consisted of twenty normal subjects (11 male, 9 female, and age 30-40 years).
SPECT images were reconstructed using filter back projection and attenuation correction was done by the
Chang method. The SPECT imagings was obtained 20 min after intravenous injection of 740-1110 MBq (20-30
mCi) of Tc99m-ECD and were acquired on 128×128 matrices with a 20% symmetric energy window at 140
keV. These data publicly distributed by the Society of Nuclear Medicine of Toronto Hospital. The data was
standardized with respect to the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) atlas with a 12 parameter affine
transformations. Images were then smoothed by a Gaussian filter of 10 mm FWHM. Significance differences
between SPECT images were estimated at every voxel using statistical t-test and p-value as the significant
criteria was set at 0.05.
Results: The contrast comparing non attenuation corrected to attenuation corrected images suggest that regional
brain perfusion activity increase in the cerebrum, frontal (T-value 12.06) , temporal (T-value 10.63) and
occipital (T-value 9.31) lobe and decrease in the sub-lobar, extra-nuclear (T-value 17.46) and limbic lobe,
posterior cingulate (T-value 17.46) before attenuation correction compare with attenuation correction.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that applying attenuation correction in brain SPECT can effectively improve
the accuracy of the detection of activation area (p < 0.05).
Journal title :
Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Journal title :
Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine