Efficient estimation of dynamic cardiac SPECT kinetic parameters using singular value decomposition reconstruction
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
Error estimates of time activity curves are necessary to obtain efficient estimates of dynamic of dynamic cardiac SPECT kinetic parameters which are determined using weighted least squares fitting that incorporates these error estimates. In cardiac SPECT, iterative algorithms are used to obtain attenuation corrected reconstructions, and the use of an iterative algorithm makes it difficult to estimate the errors of the estimated reconstruction. An alternate approach is to estimate the reconstruction by solving the system of normal equations using singular value decomposition. This method was applied to dynamic data acquired from a canine study. A canine was injected with 25 mCi of Tc-99m-teboroxime and was imaged using a three-detector SPECT system (Picker PRISM 3000). Sequential 5 sec tomographic acquisitions were acquired for 15 min, allowing both the wash-in and wash-out of teboroxime to be measured. The projection data were reconstructed into 64x64 transaxial slices for each 5 sec acquisition using singular value decomposition to calculate the reconstructed estimate, the variance of the estimate, and the covariance between tissue and blood regions-of-interest. One 4096x4096 singular value decomposition was obtained in 71 hours using a 40 mHz Supper SPARC processor. Tissue and blood time-activity curves were generated from the attenuation corrected transaxial reconstructions. The blood activity curve was generated from a region drawn inside the left ventricle. A two-compartment model was fit to the blood and tissue activity curves to give weighted least squares estimates of blood volume fraction and wash-in and wash-out rate constants specifying teboroxime kinetics for regions of the left ventricular myocardium. As expected the weighted least squares estimates of the kinetic parameters had smaller variances than the unweighted estimates, thus demonstrating more efficient parameter estimation.
- OSTI ID:
- 197901
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940605-; ISSN 0161-5505; TRN: 95:007029-0026
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 35, Issue Suppl.5; Conference: 41. annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Orlando, FL (United States), 5-8 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: May 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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