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Reducing bladder artifacts in clinical pelvic SPECT images.

R Glenn Wells1, Troy Farncombe, Edward Chang

  • 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, St. Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada. wells@lri.sjhc.london.on.ca

Journal of Nuclear Medicine : Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
|August 10, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Dynamic SPECT (dSPECT) effectively reduces bladder artifacts in pelvic imaging, improving image quality. This iterative algorithm enhances diagnostic accuracy by minimizing artifacts caused by bladder activity.

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Area of Science:

  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Medical Imaging
  • Image Reconstruction

Background:

  • Pelvic SPECT imaging is often compromised by bladder artifacts, rendering up to 20% of scans unreadable.
  • These artifacts stem from high bladder activity and its dynamic changes during acquisition, coupled with pelvic attenuation inconsistencies.
  • Filtered backprojection (FBP) reconstruction struggles with these dynamic changes, leading to significant artifacts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of the dynamic SPECT (dSPECT) iterative reconstruction algorithm in reducing bladder artifacts in clinical pelvic bone SPECT images.
  • To compare dSPECT performance against traditional FBP and Rescaled Block-Iterative Reconstruction (RBI) with and without attenuation correction (AC).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from 20 patients, reconstructing images with FBP, RBI (no AC), RBI (with AC), and dSPECT.

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  • Employed patient-specific attenuation maps from a (153)Gd transmission system for AC.
  • dSPECT reconstructed 16 time frames, which were then summed; artifact-to-bone contrast and subjective image quality were assessed.

    • Main Results:

    • RBI without AC significantly reduced streak artifacts compared to FBP (P=0.008).
    • Both dSPECT and RBI with AC further significantly reduced artifacts (P<0.001), enhancing uniformity and symmetry of bone tracer uptake.
    • dSPECT demonstrated superior artifact reduction over RBI with AC when bladder activity changes exceeded 100%.

    Conclusions:

    • dSPECT is the most effective method among those evaluated for removing bladder artifacts in clinical pelvic SPECT imaging.
    • The algorithm's ability to handle changing tracer distributions and attenuation makes it ideal for dynamic SPECT acquisitions.
    • Improved image quality with dSPECT can lead to more accurate diagnoses in pelvic bone SPECT studies.