Evaluation of image quality and clinical acceptance of HD-Bone, a novel multimodal SPECT/CT reconstruction method for Tc99m diphosphonate imaging

AH Vija, Z Szabo, T Kuwert, J Froelich, P Bartenstein… - 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
339 Objectives A new true-hybrid multimodal SPECT reconstruction method called High-
Definition Bone (Siemens HD-Bone) has been developed. The aim of this pilot study was to …

Quantitative bone SPECT with a novel multimodal reconstruction

M Cachovan, AH Vija, J Hornegger, T Kuwert - 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
338 Objectives A new, truly hybrid multimodal reconstruction method has been developed
that enables High-Definition Bone and Quantitative-SPECT imaging (HD-Bone, Q-SPECT; …

[HTML][HTML] ROC study and SUV threshold using quantitative multi-modal SPECT for bone imaging

AH Vija, PA Bartenstein, JW Froelich, T Kuwert… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background We investigated the clinical performance of a quantitative multi-modal
SPECT/CT reconstruction platform for yielding radioactivity concentrations of bone imaging …

[PDF][PDF] Reader confidence in lesion detection and lesion characterization with xSPECT Bone

AH Vija, J Ma, P Bartenstein, J Froelich, T Kuwert… - J Nucl Med, 2014 - cdn0.scrvt.com
The recently introduced xSPECT Bone*(xB) incorporates tissue boundary delineation from a
CT for bone SPECT imaging with Tc99m Di-phosphates. In this work we compare …

The new SPECT/CT reconstruction algorithm xSPECT Bone®: reliability and accuracy in daily practice for non-oncologic bone diseases

O Delcroix, P Robin, M Gouillou, ALD Pennec… - Médecine Nucléaire, 2017 - Elsevier
Background xSPECT Bone®(xB) is a new reconstruction algorithm developed by Siemens®
in bone hybrid imaging (SPECT/CT). A CT-based tissue segmentation is incorporated into …

Noise and resolution characteristics for xSPECT reconstruction method

J Ma, AH Vija - 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
2129 Objectives Siemens introduced xSPECT Quant (xQ) and xSPECT Bone (xB), which
enable both quantitative SPECT for Tc99m and a dedicated solution of bone SPECT, where …

Comparison of 10 versus 20 min SPECT 99mTc-MDP bone scans: use of 3D-OSEM image reconstruction with distance-dependent resolution modelling

L Livieratos, H Mohan, G Gnanasegaran… - Nuclear Medicine …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background Iterative reconstruction with system response modelling has been implemented
in commercial software by manufacturers for distance-dependent resolution modelling …

[HTML][HTML] Transition to fast whole-body SPECT/CT bone imaging: an assessment of image quality

M Alqahtani, K Willowson, R Fulton, C Constable… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Objective: To investigate the impact of reduced SPECT acquisition time on reconstructed
image quality for diagnostic purposes. Method: Data from five patients referred for a routine …

A multivendor phantom study comparing the image quality produced from three state-of-the-art SPECT-CT systems

T Hughes, A Celler - Nuclear medicine communications, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective Ongoing advancements in single photon emission computed tomography with on-
board X-ray computed tomography (SPECT-CT) hardware and software raise important …

Restoration of Tc-99m methyl diphosphonate bone scan image using Richardson–Lucy algorithm

AK Pandey, D Sonker, J Chaudhary… - Nuclear Medicine …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Materials and methods The experiment was performed on 60 anonymized Tc-99 m MDP
whole-body bone scan images. Ten images were used for estimating the optimum value of …