Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging

In single photon emission computed tomography, collimator selection, optimization, and also geometric calibration have a major impact on the acquired image quality and so on an accurate detectability and diagnosis. The collimator optimization phenomena consider some parameters such as field of view,...

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Main Authors: Parvaneh Darkhor, Jalil Pirayesh Islamian
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Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies
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Online Access:https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/view/246
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description In single photon emission computed tomography, collimator selection, optimization, and also geometric calibration have a major impact on the acquired image quality and so on an accurate detectability and diagnosis. The collimator optimization phenomena consider some parameters such as field of view, resolution, sensitivity, resolution at depth, septal thickness and penetration for a specific application task. While the parallel hole collimator is usually used in SPECT and planar imaging but due to the limited solid angle covered by the collimator, the system sensitivity and resolution were highly reduced. Meanwhile other types of collimators such as pin-hole, multi-pin-hole, slant and slit-slat collimators were introduced with a trade-off between sensitivity and resolution. The slant collimator with a much larger solid angle potentially increase the low detection sensitivity from a thin crystal than a parallel hole. This article reviews improvements on collimators also by considering the geometry and geometric calibration methods for improving the image quality in single photon emission computed tomography.
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spelling doaj.art-6663e3c060734afb8cfa54212d15df7a2022-12-22T00:56:35ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesFrontiers in Biomedical Technologies2345-58372020-06-017210.18502/fbt.v7i2.3859Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography ImagingParvaneh Darkhor0Jalil Pirayesh Islamian1Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz, IranDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz, IranIn single photon emission computed tomography, collimator selection, optimization, and also geometric calibration have a major impact on the acquired image quality and so on an accurate detectability and diagnosis. The collimator optimization phenomena consider some parameters such as field of view, resolution, sensitivity, resolution at depth, septal thickness and penetration for a specific application task. While the parallel hole collimator is usually used in SPECT and planar imaging but due to the limited solid angle covered by the collimator, the system sensitivity and resolution were highly reduced. Meanwhile other types of collimators such as pin-hole, multi-pin-hole, slant and slit-slat collimators were introduced with a trade-off between sensitivity and resolution. The slant collimator with a much larger solid angle potentially increase the low detection sensitivity from a thin crystal than a parallel hole. This article reviews improvements on collimators also by considering the geometry and geometric calibration methods for improving the image quality in single photon emission computed tomography.https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/view/246CollimatorResolutionImage QualitySensitivitySingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography
spellingShingle Parvaneh Darkhor
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Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging
Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies
Collimator
Resolution
Image Quality
Sensitivity
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
title Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging
title_full Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging
title_fullStr Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging
title_full_unstemmed Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging
title_short Review on Recent Developments in Collimators of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging
title_sort review on recent developments in collimators of single photon emission computed tomography imaging
topic Collimator
Resolution
Image Quality
Sensitivity
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
url https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/view/246
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