SPECT imaging with off-set detector system: comparison of sampling angles 2, 4 and 6 degrees.
OBJECTIVE
We evaluated an off set reconstruction method for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and compared it with the conventional on set reconstruction method, using sampling angles of 2, 4, and 6 degrees.


METHODS
A triple-detector system was used. In the off-set acquisition, sampling angles of the opposite detector were shifted 1/2 of the sampling angles of 2, 4, and 6 degrees. For example, when projection data were acquired every 6-degrees (sampling angle = 6 degrees), the projection angles were at 0 degrees, 6 degrees, 12 degrees, and 174 degrees with one detector, and 177 degrees, 183 degrees, 189 degrees, and 357 degrees with the other, opposite, detector. The conventional on set reconstruction images were compared with an off set reconstruction for a pool phantom of uniform concentration, a hot rods phantom, a myocardial phantom, and a human study.


RESULTS
The off set reconstruction method was better at all three sampling angles. FWHM (mm) were 11.02 at off-set versus 11.17 at on-set (sampling angle 2 degrees), 11.13 at off-set versus 11.48 at on-set (sampling angle 4 degrees), and 11.24 at off-set versus 11.64 at on-set (sampling angle 6 degrees), respectively. In human myocardium SPECT, visualization of the interventricular septum and cardiac cavity was improved.


CONCLUSIONS
Off set reconstruction by means of filtered back projection will be an efficient sampling mode, having a larger number of effective projection angles.
Takahashi
Yasuyuki
Y
i-y-taka@epnh.pref.ehime.jp
Murase
Kenya
K
Higashno
Hiroshi
H
Kawakami
Hideo
H
Kawamata
Isao
I
D000328:Adult; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018401:Sample Size; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*