Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medical imaging

H Zaidi - Medical physics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Monte Carlo techniques have become popular in different areas of medical physics with
advantage of powerful computing systems. In particular, they have been extensively applied …

Review and current status of SPECT scatter correction

BF Hutton, I Buvat, FJ Beekman - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Detection of scattered gamma quanta degrades image contrast and quantitative accuracy of
single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging. This paper reviews …

MIRD pamphlet no. 23: quantitative SPECT for patient-specific 3-dimensional dosimetry in internal radionuclide therapy

YK Dewaraja, EC Frey, G Sgouros… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - jnm.snmjournals.org
In internal radionuclide therapy, a growing interest in voxel-level estimates of tissue-
absorbed dose has been driven by the desire to report radiobiologic quantities that account …

Single photon-emission computed tomography

TA Holly, BG Abbott, M Al-Mallah, DA Calnon… - 2010 - Elsevier
The current document is an update of an earlier version of single photon emission
tomography (SPECT) guidelines that was developed by the American Society of Nuclear …

Recommendations for reducing radiation exposure in myocardial perfusion imaging

MD Cerqueira, KC Allman, EP Ficaro, CL Hansen… - 2010 - Elsevier
Radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using single photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) or positron emission tomography (PET) for the detection of ischemia in …

Bayesian reconstruction and use of anatomical a priori information for emission tomography

JE Bowsher, VE Johnson, TG Turkington… - IEEE transactions on …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Bayesian method is presented for simultaneously segmenting and reconstructing
emission computed tomography (ECT) images and for incorporating high-resolution …

Efficient fully 3-D iterative SPECT reconstruction with Monte Carlo-based scatter compensation

FJ Beekman, HWAM de Jong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative accuracy of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images is
highly dependent on the photon scatter model used for image reconstruction. Monte Carlo …

Image reconstruction—a tutorial

GL Zeng - Computerized medical imaging and graphics, 2001 - Elsevier
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Improved quantitative 90Y bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT reconstruction with Monte Carlo scatter modeling

YK Dewaraja, SY Chun, RN Srinivasa… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In 90Y microsphere radioembolization (RE), accurate post‐therapy imaging‐based
dosimetry is important for establishing absorbed dose versus outcome relationships for …

Accuracy of quantitative reconstructions in SPECT/CT imaging

S Shcherbinin, A Celler, T Belhocine… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of this study was to determine the quantitative accuracy of our OSEM-APDI
reconstruction method based on SPECT/CT imaging for Tc-99m, In-111, I-123, and I-131 …