A deblurring/denoising corrected scintigraphic planar image reconstruction model for targeted alpha therapy Conference Paper
| Authors: | Schmidtlein, C. R.; Maroun, M.; Krol, A.; Gifford, H.; Li, S.; Bodei, L.; O'Donoghue, J.; Häggström, I.; Xu, Y. |
| Editors: | Gimi, B. S.; Krol, A. |
| Title: | A deblurring/denoising corrected scintigraphic planar image reconstruction model for targeted alpha therapy |
| Conference Title: | Medical Imaging 2021: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging |
| Abstract: | Scintigraphy is a common nuclear medicine method to image molecular target's bio-distribution and pharmacokinetics through the use of radiotracers and gamma cameras. The patient's images are obtained by using a pair of opposing large flat gamma ray detectors equipped with parallel-hole lead or tungsten collimators that preferentially detect gamma-rays that are emitted perpendicular to the plane of the detector. The resulting images form an anterior/posterior (A/P) planar image pairs. The obtained images are contaminated by noise and contain artifacts caused by gamma-ray attenuation, collimator penetration, scatter and other detrimental factors. Post-filtering of the images can reduce the noise, but at the cost of spatial resolution loss, and cannot remove any of the aforementioned artifacts. In this study, we introduced a new image reconstruction-based method to recover a single corrected planar scintigraphic patient image corrected for attenuation, system spatial resolution and collimator penetration, using the A/P image pair (two conjugated views) as data. To accomplish this task, we used a system model based on the gamma camera detectors physical properties and applied regularization method based on sparse image representation to control noise while preserving spatial resolution. In this proof-of-concept study, we evaluated the proposed approach using simple numerical phantoms. The images were evaluated for simulated lesions images contrast and background variability. Our initial results indicate that the proposed method outperforms the conventional methods. We conclude, that the proposed approach is a promising methodology for improved planar scintigraphic image quality and warrants further exploration. © COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. |
| Keywords: | molecular imaging; image enhancement; nuclear medicine; image reconstruction; medical applications; gamma rays; cameras; gamma ray detector; spatial resolution; image resolution; image denoising; planar scintigraphic imaging, image reconstruction, sparse regularization; electromagnetic wave attenuation; conventional methods; gamma-ray attenuation; numerical phantoms; regularization methods; scintigraphic images; sparse image representations |
| Journal Title | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
| Volume: | 11600 |
| Conference Dates: | 2021 Feb 15-19 |
| Conference Location: | Virtual Event |
| ISBN: | 1605-7422 |
| Publisher: | SPIE |
| Date Published: | 2021-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 11600 13 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2584736 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Conference Paper -- Export Date: 3 May 2021 -- Source: Scopus |
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