Central region sensitivity enhancement in SPECT using a combination of parallel and converging collimators

Author

Reimann, D.A. ; Engdahl, J.C. ; Bernstein, Tsur

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

1758

Abstract

A major problem in SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging is noise due to the small number of detected photons emitted from a feature of interest. The effects of simultaneously using both parallel and converging collimation to enhance the sensitivity in a central field of view, while adequately sampling the entire object, were investigated. The sensitivity effects of several collimator combinations were simulated for several tool count rates, with and without constant uniform attenuation. Results show that, using one parallel collimator and five converging collimators, the central region has a contrast-to-noise ratio equivalent to using twice the counts with only parallel collimation.<>

Keywords

computerised tomography; radioisotope scanning and imaging; SPECT; central region sensitivity enhancement; contrast-to-noise ratio equivalent; converging collimators; count rate; medical diagnostic imaging; nuclear medicine; parallel collimators; single photon emission computed tomography; Attenuation; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Collimators; Head; Image converters; Imaging phantoms; Object detection; Sampling methods; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259319

Filename

259319