Three-dimensional reconstructions from low-count SPECT data using deformable models
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest (France). Faculte de Medecine
The authors demonstrate the reconstruction of a 3D, time-varying bolus of radiotracer from first-pass data obtained at the dynamic SPECT imager, FASTSPECT, built by the University of Arizona. The object imaged is a CardioWest Total Artificial Heart. The bolus is entirely contained in one ventricle and its associated inlet and outlet tracts. The model for the radiotracer distribution is a time-varying closed surface parameterized by 162 vertices that are connected to make 960 triangles, with uniform intensity of radiotracer inside. The total curvature of the surface is minimized through the use of a weighted prior in the Bayesian framework. MAP estimates for the vertices, interior intensity and background scatter are produced for diastolic and systolic frames, the only two frames analyzed.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 650217
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-97-4908; CONF-9710194-; ON: DE98004370; TRN: 98:010141
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IEEE nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Albuquerque, NM (United States), Oct 1997; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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