An assessment of PET dose reduction with penalized likelihood image reconstruction using a computationally efficient model observer

Howard C. Gifford; C. Ross Schmidtlein; Andrzej Krol; Yuesheng Xu

doi:10.1117/12.2550856

16 March 2020 An assessment of PET dose reduction with penalized likelihood image reconstruction using a computationally efficient model observer

Howard C. Gifford, C. Ross Schmidtlein, Andrzej Krol, Yuesheng Xu

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Proceedings Volume 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging; 113120T (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2550856
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Developing PET reconstruction algorithms with improved low-count capabilities may provide a timely and cost- effective means of reducing radiation dose in promising clinical applications such as immuno-PET that require long-lived radiotracers. For many PET clinics, the reconstruction protocol consists of postsmoothed ordered-sets expectation-maximization (OSEM) reconstruction, but penalized likelihood methods based on total-variation (TV) regularization could substantially reduce dose. We performed a task-based comparison of postsmoothed OSEM and higher-order TV (HOTV) reconstructions using simulated images of a contrast-detail phantom. An anthropomorphic visual-search model observer read the images in a location-known receiver operating characteristic (ROC) format. Acquisition counts, target uptake, and target size were study variables, and the OSEM postfiltering was task-optimized based on count level. A psychometric analysis of observer performance for the selected task found that the HOTV algorithm allowed a two-fold reduction in dose compared to the optimized OSEM algorithm.

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Howard C. Gifford, C. Ross Schmidtlein, Andrzej Krol, and Yuesheng Xu "An assessment of PET dose reduction with penalized likelihood image reconstruction using a computationally efficient model observer", Proc. SPIE 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging, 113120T (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2550856

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