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    • Medical Imaging
    • Nuclear Medicine
    • Radiological Physics

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    • Attenuation correction is standard in SPECT/CT, particularly for thoracic imaging, often using transmission scans that increase patient radiation dose.
    • Various compensation methods exist, but their necessity and impact on image quality require careful evaluation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To determine the specific conditions under which attenuation correction is essential in SPECT/CT procedures.
    • To evaluate the trade-offs between image quality improvements and additional radiation dose from attenuation correction.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized Jaszczak and line source phantoms filled with technetium-99m, incorporating scattering materials (air, water, acrylic).
    • Applied both analytic and iterative reconstruction algorithms, with and without attenuation correction, across different detector configurations and matrix sizes (128x128, 64x64).
    • Assessed image quality parameters including eccentricity, contrast, and spatial resolution.

    Main Results:

    • Iterative reconstruction generally outperformed analytic methods for both matrix sizes.
    • For low statistics SPECT/CT imaging (128x128 matrix), iterative reconstruction without attenuation correction improved parameters by 150%.
    • For high statistics imaging (128x128 matrix), iterative reconstruction with attenuation correction yielded a 25% improvement over methods without correction.

    Conclusions:

    • Attenuation correction is not justified for low-statistics SPECT/CT procedures due to the added radiation dose.
    • The benefits of attenuation correction are significant only in high-statistics acquisitions where contrast enhancement is the primary goal.