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180° Pinhole SPET with a tilted detector and OS-EM reconstruction: phantom studies and potential clinical applications

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This study investigated the feasibility of ordered subsets expectation maximisation (OS-EM) reconstruction of pinhole single-photon emission tomography (SPET) acquired with a tilted detector head and a 180° orbit. Phantom and patient data were recorded using a standard single-head camera. Reconstructions were performed using a dedicated OS-EM algorithm. Reconstructed images of line, uniformity and Picker's thyroid phantoms showed that the geometry, physical size and uniformity of the radioactive objects were preserved. For the range of radius corresponding to the patient studies, the measured full-widths at half-maximum lay between 4.90±0.25 mm and 6.05±0.25 mm. Finally, the gain in resolution associated with the use of the pinhole collimator instead of a parallel-hole collimator was highlighted in a parathyroid exploration and in a shoulder bone study.

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Received 8 May and in revised form 25 July 2001

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Seret, A., Defrise, M. & Blocklet, D. 180° Pinhole SPET with a tilted detector and OS-EM reconstruction: phantom studies and potential clinical applications. Eur J Nucl Med 28, 1836–1841 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002590100629

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