List-mode-based reconstruction for respiratory motion correction in PET using non-rigid body transformations

Respiratory motion in emission tomography leads to reduced image quality. Developed correction methodology has been concentrating on the use of respiratory synchronized acquisitions leading to gated frames. Such frames, however, are of low signal-to-noise ratio as a result of containing reduced stat...

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Published in:Physics in medicine & biology 2007-09, Vol.52 (17), p.5187-5204
Main Authors: Lamare, F, Ledesma Carbayo, M J, Cresson, T, Kontaxakis, G, Santos, A, Le Rest, C Cheze, Reader, A J, Visvikis, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Image Enhancement - methods
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods
Movement
Phantoms, Imaging
Positron-Emission Tomography - instrumentation
Positron-Emission Tomography - methods
Reproducibility of Results
Respiratory Mechanics
Sensitivity and Specificity
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Summary:Respiratory motion in emission tomography leads to reduced image quality. Developed correction methodology has been concentrating on the use of respiratory synchronized acquisitions leading to gated frames. Such frames, however, are of low signal-to-noise ratio as a result of containing reduced statistics. In this work, we describe the implementation of an elastic transformation within a list-mode-based reconstruction for the correction of respiratory motion over the thorax, allowing the use of all data available throughout a respiratory motion average acquisition. The developed algorithm was evaluated using datasets of the NCAT phantom generated at different points throughout the respiratory cycle. List-mode-data-based PET-simulated frames were subsequently produced by combining the NCAT datasets with Monte Carlo simulation. A non-rigid registration algorithm based on B-spline basis functions was employed to derive transformation parameters accounting for the respiratory motion using the NCAT dynamic CT images. The displacement matrices derived were subsequently applied during the image reconstruction of the original emission list mode data. Two different implementations for the incorporation of the elastic transformations within the one-pass list mode EM (OPL-EM) algorithm were developed and evaluated. The corrected images were compared with those produced using an affine transformation of list mode data prior to reconstruction, as well as with uncorrected respiratory motion average images. Results demonstrate that although both correction techniques considered lead to significant improvements in accounting for respiratory motion artefacts in the lung fields, the elastic-transformation-based correction leads to a more uniform improvement across the lungs for different lesion sizes and locations.
ISSN:0031-9155
1361-6560
DOI:10.1088/0031-9155/52/17/006