Nuclear Science Symposium
and
Medical Imaging Conference
Lyon, France
October
15-20, 2000
Program of Oral and Poster Sessions
3.1 - MIC Instrumentation Systems and Medical Imaging - Attenuation and Scatter Correction Techniques
Oral Session A
Oral Session B
Poster Session A
Poster Session B
Oral Session A 
| Wednesday 18 October
13:30 - 15:00 Chairperson(s) : Larry Zeng 15' per presentation |
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| 66 | Segmented Attenuation Map Reconstruction from Incomplete Transmission Data | Hiroyuki Kudo and Hiroki Nakamura |
| 348 | A Dedicated ML-Algorithm for Non-Attenuation Corrected PET Whole Body Images | J. Nuyts, S. Stroobants, P. Dupont, S. Vleugels, P. Flamen, L. Mortelmans |
| 447 | The Impact of Noisy Attenuation Maps and Patient Motion on Human-Observer Performance at Ga-67 Lesion Detection in SPECT | R.G. Wells, H.C. Gifford, P.H. Pretorius, and M.A. King |
| 495 | Segmented Attenuation Correction in Whole Body PET using Neighbourhood EM Clustering | A.T. Papenfuss, G.J. O'Keefe and A.M. Scott, Centre for PET, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre |
| 645 | Respective Importance of Scatter, Attenuation, Collimator Response and Partial Volume Effect Corrections for Accurate Quantification in 123I Dopamine Receptor Imaging | I. Buvat, M. Soret, S. Hapdey, C. Riddell, H. Benali, R. Di Paol |
| 657 | Dual Isotope (In-111/Tc-99m) SPECT: Noise Reduction with an Analytic Attenuation Correction Method | B. C. Penney, C.-K. Kao, X. Pan, and D. Bidani |
| 735 | Design and Performance of Collimated Coincidence Point Sources for Simultaneous Transmission Measurements in 3D PET | C.C. Watson, L. Eriksson, M.E. Casey, W.F. Jones, J.C. Moyers, A. Van Lingen, B. Bendriem, R. Nutt |
Oral Session B
| Friday 20 October
9:00 - 10:30 Chairperson(s) : Larry Zeng 15' per presentation |
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| 79 | Efficient Photon Cross-Talk Calculation in SPECT | Hugo W. A. M. de Jong and Freek J. Beekman |
| 95 | Adaptive Correction of Scatter and Random Events for 3D Backprojected PET Data | A. J. Reader, S. Zhao, P. J. Julyan, D. L. Hastings, J. Zweit |
| 565 | Evaluation of Model-Based Scatter Correction Accuracy Using Monte Carlo Calculated Phantom Inputs | S.D. Wollenweber, S.G. Kohlmyer, T.K. Lewellen |
| 593 | Optimization and Evaluation of Reconstruction-Based Compensation Methods in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT using the Channelized Hotelling Observer | E.C. Frey(1,2), K.J. LaCroix(1), and B.M.W. Tsui(1) (1) Department of Biomedical Engineering and (2) Department of Radiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. |
| 644 | A New Scatter Compensation Method for Ga-67 Imaging Using Artificial Neural Networks | G. El Fakhri, S.C. Moore, P. Maksud |
| 694 | Performance Analysis of an Improved Accelerated Monte Carlo PET Simulation and Portable 3-D Scatter Correction | C.H.Holdsworth, C.S.Levin,M.Dahlbom, E.J.Hoffman |
Poster Session A
| Wednesday 18 October 15:00 -
16:30 Chairperson(s) : R. Gienn Wells |
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| 68 | A New Approach to SPECT attenuation Correction without Transmission Measurements | Hiroyuki Kudo and Hiroki Nakamura |
| 85 | Attenuation Corrections For Coincidence Studies By Low Energy Stationary Line Source | V. Rappoport, P. Vernon, F. Anstett |
| 229 | Comparing the Effects of Standard and Segmented Attenuation Correction | TK Lewellen, BL Lewellen, DA Mankoff, SG Kohlmyer |
| 321 | Consistency Conditions and a 3D Transformation | Andrew Bromiley, Andrew Welch, Felice Chilcott, Smruti Waikar, Stuart Craib, Maurice Dodd, Peter Sharp |
| 555 | Optimization of Regularization of Attenuation and Scatter Corrected Tc-99m Cardiac SPECT Studies for Defect Detection using Hybrid Images | Manoj V. Narayanan, Michael A. King, Jeffrey Leppo, Seth Dahlberg, P. Hendrik Pretorius and Howard C. Gifford |
| 625 | Application of Fuzzy Inference Systems for Segmented Attenuation Correction in Positron-Emission-Tomography | K. Bilger, J. Kupferschlaeger, W. Mueller-Schauenburg, F. Nuesslin*, R. Bares, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, * Dept. of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Germany |
| 663 | Impact of Attenuation and Scatter Correction in SPECT for Quantification of Cerebral Blood Flow Using 99mTc-Ethyle-Cycteinate Dimmer | Miho Shidahara, Hiroshi Watabe, Kyeong Min Kim and Hidehiro Iida |
| 677 | Effects of Attenuation Correction on Tumor Detection in PET Oncology | C Bai, PE Kinahan, D Brasse, C Comtat, DW Townsend, CC Meltzer, V Villemagne, and M Charron |
| 692 | Using Ordered-Subset Algorithms for Single Photon Transmission Tomography in PET | C Bai, PE Kinahan, D Brasse, C Comtat |
| 718 | On Analyzing the Noise Propagation From Transmission Reconstructions Into Attenuation Corrected Emission Reconstructions | nIg-Tsung Hsiao, Yu-Xiang Xing, Gene Gindi SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA |
Poster Session
B
| Friday 20 October 15:00 - 16:30 Chairperson(s) : R. Glenn Wells |
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| 319 | Improved Quantification for Tc-94m PET Imaging | W.C. Barker, L.P. Szajek, S.L. Green and R.E. Carson |
| 325 | A Novel High-Energy I-131 Scatter Correction Technique Which Includes Correction for Gamma Camera Scatter | M.J. Guy, G.D. Flux, M.A. Flower & R.J. Ott |
| 331 | Energy Resolution Enhancement in Scintimammography. Deconvolution of ROI Spectra by means of the mTSVD Regularizing Technique. | C. Bonifazzi, R. Pani, A. Tartari, R. Inches, R. Pellegrini, A. Del Guerra |
| 334 | Backprojection-space 3D Scatter Correction of the PETRRA Positron Camera | A.Divoli, R Ott, K Erlandsson, M Flower |
| 464 | Monte Carlo Investigation of Scatter in Dual Head Coincidence Imaging | B. Pointon, V. Sossi |
| 610 | A Hybrid Scatter Correction for 3D PET based on an Estimation of the Distribution of Unscattered Coincidences: Implementation on the ECAT EXACT HR+ | N. C. Ferreira, R. Trébossen, V. Brulon, P. Merceron, C. Lartizien and B. Bendriem |
| 637 | Consideration of Backscatter Photons for Edge Detection in SPECT | Hiroshi Watabe, Miho Shidahara, Kyeong-Min Kim, Hidehiro Iida |
| 670 | SPECT Collimator Dependency of Scatter and Validation of Transmission Dependent Scatter Compensation Methodologies | Kyeong Min Kim, Hidehiro Iida, Hiroshi Watabe, Miho Shidahara |
| 684 | Crosstalk and Scatter Correction | Mi Young Paek, Jae Sung Lee, Dong Soo Lee, June-Key Chung, Myung Chul Lee |