TY - JOUR ID - 8112 TI - Performance Evaluation of FBP Reconstruction in SPECT Imaging JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Physics JA - IJMP LA - en SN - AU - Raeisi, E. AU - Rajabi, H. AU - Seifollahy, S. AU - Hajizadeh, E. AD - Ph.D. Student in Medical Physics, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. AD - Assistant Professor, Medical Physics Dept., Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. AD - M.D., Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Rajaei Heart Centere, Tehran, Iran. AD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 45 EP - 54 DO - 10.22038/ijmp.2005.8112 N2 - Introduction:  The  purpose  of  this  study  is  to  define  the  optimal  parameters  for  the  tomographic  reconstruction procedure in a routine single photon emission tomography. The Hoffman brain phantom  is modified to evaluate the reconstruction method. The phantom was imaged in a 3 and 2-dimensional  conformation and the results were compared.   Materials  and  Methods:  The  2D  phantom  (slices)  was  imaged  independently.  The  tomographic  image was performed using the phantom in 3D conformation. Planar image was used as the reference  image for each corresponding reconstructed slice image. A set of projection data with different count  densities were obtained from 99mTc with the phantom. The data were transformed into interfile format  and transferred to personal computer. A software was designed in Matlab (Version 7) to support the  phantom  and  the  automatic  calculation.  All  the  data  were  reconstructed  using  back-projection  technique with the ramp, Shepp-Logan, Cosine, Hamming, Hanning (each filter having so different  parameters), Butterworth, Metz and Wiener (each filter having 2000 different parameters). The quality  of the images was estimated by comparing the reconstructed images with the reference image by the  use of universal image quality index (UIQI).  Results: All the filters tested score substantially better than the control (P<0.05). The data from this  study suggests that the Hanning and Hamming are the weakest of the seven filter types tested (mean of  UIQI=  0.2218,  0.2219).  This  is  due  to  response  of  Hanning  and  Hamming  filters  at  the  low  frequencies.  The  quantitative  results  of  this  study  indicate  that  Wiener  filter  provided  best  image  quality of the phantom than the other filters regardless of which collimator is used. The mean of UIQI  was the most for wiener filter in comparison with the other filters (P<0.05).   Discussion and Conclusion: These results clearly show that Wiener filter improves quality image and  the extent of the improvement has been quantified. The optimum parameters obtained for the filters  show direct relation with total counts in the study.  UR - https://ijmp.mums.ac.ir/article_8112.html L1 - https://ijmp.mums.ac.ir/article_8112_f4351231e3524b3c0ad4089b26189560.pdf ER -