Revised consistency conditions for PET data

Herraiz, Joaquín L.; España, Samuel; Vicente, E.; Herranz, Elena; Vaquero, J.J.; Desco, Manuel; Udías, J. M.

doi:10.1109/nssmic.2007.4436963

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“…The consistency conditions for the Radon transform are only accurate for continuous data with zero-width lines of response with uniform sensitivity. Herraiz et al 21 showed that small animal PET systems with their finite width, asymmetric responses are not "ideal" and that the consistency conditions are only approximately valid. We assert that our proposed use of the consistency conditions is still valid because we are ranking the consistency of projection data with different attenuation corrections.…”

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Attenuation‐emission alignment in cardiac PET/CT based on consistency conditions

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Purpose:In cardiac PET and PET/CT imaging, misaligned transmission and emission images are a common problem due to respiratory and cardiac motion. This misalignment leads to erroneous attenuation correction and can cause errors in perfusion mapping and quantification. This study develops and tests a method for automated alignment of attenuation and emission data. Methods: The CT-based attenuation map is iteratively transformed until the attenuation corrected emission data minimize an objective function based on the Radon consistency conditions. The alignment process is derived from previous work by Welch et al. ͓"Attenuation correction in PET using consistency information," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 45, 3134-3141 ͑1998͔͒ for stand-alone PET imaging. The process was evaluated with the simulated data and measured patient data from multiple cardiac ammonia PET/CT exams. The alignment procedure was applied to simulations of five different noise levels with three different initial attenuation maps. For the measured patient data, the alignment procedure was applied to eight attenuation-emission combinations with initially acceptable alignment and eight combinations with unacceptable alignment. The initially acceptable alignment studies were forced out of alignment a known amount and quantitatively evaluated for alignment and perfusion accuracy. The initially unacceptable studies were compared to the proposed aligned images in a blinded side-by-side review. Results: The proposed automatic alignment procedure reduced errors in the simulated data and iteratively approaches global minimum solutions with the patient data. In simulations, the alignment procedure reduced the root mean square error to less than 5 mm and reduces the axial translation error to less than 1 mm. In patient studies, the procedure reduced the translation error by Ͼ50% and resolved perfusion artifacts after a known misalignment for the eight initially acceptable patient combinations. The side-by-side review of the proposed aligned attenuation-emission maps and initially misaligned attenuation-emission maps revealed that reviewers preferred the proposed aligned maps in all cases, except one inconclusive case. Conclusions: The proposed alignment procedure offers an automatic method to reduce attenuation correction artifacts in cardiac PET/CT and provides a viable supplement to subjective manual realignment tools.

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