Image Reconstruction for Prostate Specific Nuclear Medicine imagers
Journal Article
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OSTI ID:897365
There is increasing interest in the design and construction of nuclear medicine detectors for dedicated prostate imaging. These include detectors designed for imaging the biodistribution of radiopharmaceuticals labeled with single gamma as well as positron-emitting radionuclides. New detectors and acquisition geometries present challenges and opportunities for image reconstruction. In this contribution various strategies for image reconstruction for these special purpose imagers are reviewed. Iterative statistical algorithms provide a framework for reconstructing prostate images from a wide variety of detectors and acquisition geometries for PET and SPECT. The key to their success is modeling the physics of photon transport and data acquisition and the Poisson statistics of nuclear decay. Analytic image reconstruction methods can be fast and are useful for favorable acquisition geometries. Future perspectives on algorithm development and data analysis for prostate imaging are presented.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 897365
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-07-607; DOE/OR/23177-0004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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