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We present a new filtering algorithm, the SMART filter (simultaneous multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique) and provide a convergence result. We test it to solve the inverse problem of reconstructing a dynamic medical image where the signal strength changes substantially over the time required for data acquisition. Our test choice is the time-dependent single photon emission compute...

Many clinical and research studies in nuclear medicine require quantitation of iodine-123 (123I) distribution for the determination of kinetics or localization. The objective of this study was to implement several reconstruction methods designed for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using 123I and to evaluate their performance in terms of quantitative accuracy, image artifacts,...

This paper presents improved autoregressive modelling (AR) to reduce noise in SPECT images. An AR filter was applied to prefilter projection images and postfilter ordered subset expectation maximisation (OSEM) reconstruction images (AR-OSEM-AR method). The performance of this method was compared with filtered back projection (FBP) preceded by Butterworth filtering (BW-FBP method) and the OSEM r...

A mathematical framework for quantitative SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) reconstruction of the heart is presented. An efficient simultaneous compensation approach to the reconstruction task is described. The implementation of the approach on a digital computer is delineated. The approach was validated by experimental data acquired from chest phantoms. The phantoms consisted ...

This book describes the theory and practice of iterative methods for tomographic image reconstruction and related inverse problems such as image restoration. I emphasize methods that are rooted in statistical models for the measurement noise; previous texts have emphasized primarily analytical image reconstruction methods or iterative methods that are based on algebraic principles rather than s...

UNLABELLED A major advance in biomedical science and diagnosis was accomplished with the development of in vivo techniques to image radiolabeled molecules, but limited spatial resolution has slowed down applications to small experimental animals. Here, we present a SPECT system (U-SPECT-I) dedicated to radionuclide imaging of murine organs at a submillimeter resolution. METHODS The high perfo...

A penalized-likelihood (PL) SPECT reconstruction method using a modified regularizer that accounts for anatomical boundary side information was implemented to achieve accurate estimates of both the total target activity and the activity distribution within targets. In both simulations and experimental I-131 phantom studies, reconstructions from (1) penalized likelihood employing CT-side informa...