Investigation of a Monte Carlo simulation and an analytic-based approach for modeling the system response for clinical I-123 brain SPECT imaging

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Benjamin Auer; Navid Zeraatkar; Jan De Beenhouwer; Kesava Kalluri; Philip H. Kuo; Lars R. Furenlid; Michael A. King

Source:

15th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, International Society for Optics and Photonics, Volume 11072, p.187 – 190 (2019)

URL:

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2534881

Keywords:

image reconstruction, Monte-Carlo simulation, SPECT I-123 brain imaging, System response modeling, Variance reduction technique (forced detection)
Research area: 
Tomography