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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dresden, Germany
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774089
