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    • Medical imaging
    • Radiotherapy

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    • Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) utilizes alpha-emitting radionuclides (AER) for treating advanced cancers.
    • Current TAT dosimetry relies on activity, neglecting individual biodistribution and kinetics.
    • Accurate patient-specific dosimetry requires in-vivo imaging of AER, which is challenging due to limited imageable photons.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a novel computed quantitative planar (CQP) imaging method for reconstructing the 3D AER distribution.
    • To enable patient-specific dosimetry for TAT based on absorbed dose criteria.
    • To overcome imaging challenges associated with scarce photons from AER.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a CQP imaging method to reconstruct coronal projection of 3D AER distribution from anterior/posterior scintigraphy coregistered with CT.
    • Employed maximum a posteriori estimation with sparse ℓ1 tight-framelet transforms for model regularization.
    • Utilized a convergence-guaranteed fixed-point proximity algorithm for solving the model.
    • Experimentally validated the method using a phantom with a known distribution of 225Ac.

    Main Results:

    • CQP reconstruction demonstrated significantly reduced bias and noise compared to geometric mean methods.
    • Improved spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratios were achieved with CQP.
    • The phantom study confirmed the accuracy of the reconstructed AER distribution.

    Conclusions:

    • The CQP imaging method is a clinically implementable solution for AER biodistribution imaging using conventional SPECT/CT systems.
    • This approach can significantly improve dosimetry workflows in TAT, particularly when 3D SPECT/PET is not feasible.
    • CQP imaging facilitates patient-specific treatment delivery in Targeted Alpha Therapy.