{"title":"Distortion compensation of electronic endoscope image","authors":"H. Haneishi, Y. Miyake","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373585","url":null,"abstract":"A method for geometrical compensation of distortion of endoscope images is proposed. A model for distortion compensation is built based on a circularly symmetric assumption of distortion, and model parameters are estimated from a distorted image of a grid pattern which consists of several straight lines. Experimental results that demonstrated the effectiveness of this method are shown.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131418646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Dahlbom, P. Cutler, W. Digby, W. K. Luk, J. Reed
{"title":"Characterization of sampling schemes for whole body PET imaging","authors":"M. Dahlbom, P. Cutler, W. Digby, W. K. Luk, J. Reed","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373614","url":null,"abstract":"Whole body PET images suffers by relatively high noise levels due to inherent poor counting statistics in the emission data. It is therefore important to optimize the acquisition parameters to minimize any additional noise contamination. It has previously been shown that using a continuous or redundant acquisition scheme, improvements in noise characteristics and image quality are seen. In this work the continuous sampling is further characterized and compared to the conventional step and shoot acquisition. The main sources of noise contamination using conventional sampling is due to the normalization procedure which is applied to the emission data. By using continuous sampling and using a common normalization for all planes, the statistical noise in the normalization is improved by factor close to the number of planes in the scanner. The continuous sampling showed to be less sensitive to small patient movements (<5 mm) compared to conventional scanning. Previously reported problems of data handling have been resolved by rewriting the acquisition firmware to allow on-line addition of the redundant sampled data in hardware.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"35 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132717292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Qualification Of Modern Electrical Products To Original Plant Specifications","authors":"C. Thibault, G. L. Hanna","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.701800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.701800","url":null,"abstract":"DISCUSSION Since the construction of most nuclear power generating stations, engineering thermoplastics have replaced many original materials of construction, manufacturer designs have changed significantly and product specifications have evolved to reflect modem product requirements. Whereas many material changes provide improved thermal stability, most manufacturing changes add difficulty to the qualification process. An additional set of hurdles is established by the changes in applicable industry standards such as UL and NEMA. The following discussion focuses on the influence of design and standard changes on the qualification of replacement and retrofit items. Although the paper presents motor control center (MCC) and circuit breakers as examples of the necessary qualification analysis and test programs, most other Class 1E equipment have experienced similar changes.","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132885264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New complete-data spaces and faster algorithms for penalized-likelihood emission tomography","authors":"J. Fessler, A. Hero","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373624","url":null,"abstract":"The classical expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for image reconstruction suffers from particularly slow convergence when additive background effects such as accidental coincidences and scatter are included. In addition, when smoothness penalties are included in the objective function, the M-step of the EM algorithm becomes intractable due to parameter coupling. The authors describe the space-alternating generalized EM (SAGE) algorithm, in which the parameters are updated sequentially using a sequence of small \"hidden\" data spaces rather than one large complete-data space. The sequential update decouples the M-step, so the maximization can typically be performed analytically. By choosing hidden-data spaces with considerably less Fisher information than the conventional complete-data space for Poisson data, the authors obtain significant improvements in convergence rate. This acceleration is due to statistical considerations, not to numerical overrelaxation methods, so monotonic increases in the objective function and global convergence are guaranteed. Due to the space constraints, the authors focus on the unpenalized case in this summary, and they eliminate derivations that are similar to those in Lange and Carson, J. Comput. Assist. Tomography, vol. 8, no. 2, p.306-16 (1984).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133010647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. McDaniel, B. D. Johnston, D.C. Wack, J.J. Williams
{"title":"Simulation and measurement of spatial resolution in detection of annihilation radiation with BGO crystals","authors":"D. McDaniel, B. D. Johnston, D.C. Wack, J.J. Williams","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373590","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial resolution performance measurements of PET scanners are sensitive to the long tails of the angular distribution of the annihilation radiation, to a degree not previously appreciated. The non-Gaussian nature of the positron range, angular distribution of annihilation radiation, and scatter-induced spatial distribution of scintillator energy deposition prevents simple (e.g. quadrature-based arguments) methods of performance estimation, and requires full numerical convolution of the 3D spatial profiles. The authors have developed a Monte Carlo simulation of 511 keV gamma ray interactions with scintillator crystals to model the spatial distributions obtained in projection measurements of annihilation radiation from point sources. The authors find good agreement between the simulations and experimental results obtained with BGO-based crystals, both for optically-isolated crystals embedded in a crystal matrix, and for a conventional, Anger-based BGO block detector. There is approximately a 0.3 mm difference in the coincidence response function FWHM between 4 mm isolated and Anger crystals which is reproduced by the Monte Carlo calculations.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"24 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113959732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Dorenbos, J. D. de Haas, C. V. van Eijk, C. Melcher, J. Schweitzer
{"title":"Non-linear Response In The Scintillation Yield Of Lu/sub 2/ SiO/sub 5/ O:Ce/sup 3+/","authors":"P. Dorenbos, J. D. de Haas, C. V. van Eijk, C. Melcher, J. Schweitzer","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.701745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.701745","url":null,"abstract":"The absolute light yield of cerium doped lutetium oxyorthosilicate Lu/sub 2/SiO/sub 5/:Ce/sup 3+/ (LSO:Ce) scintillation crystals is presented. From 60 keV to above 1 MeV the light output increases linearly with the gamma-ray energy and is about 67% of that of NaI(Tl/sup +/). However, a nonlinear response is observed for X-ray energies between 5 and 60 keV. For comparison, we also studied the light yield of a Gd/sub 2/SiO/sub 5/:Ce/sup 3+/ crystal and a CsI:Tl crystal as a function of excitation energy. >","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"261 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123023528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of scatter components in multispectral PET imaging","authors":"M. Bentourkia, P. Msaki, J. Cadorette, R. Lecomte","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373541","url":null,"abstract":"High resolution images in PET based on small individual detectors are obtained at the cost of poor sensitivity and significant scatter in the detectors. These drawbacks can be partially overcome by acquiring low-energy events and by using more efficient energy-dependent scatter correction methods. The feasibility of multispectral scatter correction was assessed by analyzing projection response functions measured in several energy windows to extract scatter components. While the fraction of well-positioned events drops from 90% in the photopeak region to less than 20% in the lower windows, the detector scatter fraction increases from 5% to 60% in the same range. By independent restoration of the latter component in every energy window, nearly 90% of all detected events can be recovered. Multispectral acquisition, therefore, is a promising approach for recovering sensitivity without loss of resolution in high resolution PET.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129345930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive Gaussian filter for noise reduction and edge detection","authors":"Guang Deng, L. Cahill","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373563","url":null,"abstract":"Gaussian filtering has been intensively studied in image processing and computer vision. Using a Gaussian filter for noise suppression, the noise is smoothed out, at the same time the signal is also distorted. The use of a Gaussian filter as pre-processing for edge detection will also give rise to edge position displacement, edges vanishing, and phantom edges. Here, the authors first review various techniques for these problems. They then propose an adaptive Gaussian filtering algorithm in which the filter variance is adapted to both the noise characteristics and the local variance of the signal.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128717923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constrained IntraSPECT reconstruction from SPECT projections","authors":"S. Manglos, T. M. Young","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373561","url":null,"abstract":"A new method is presented for tomographic image reconstruction, called \"Intrinsic Transmission SPECT\" or just \"IntraSPECT\". It simultaneously reconstructs both the attenuation map (/spl mu/) and an attenuation-compensated activity map (A), using only the SPECT projections. A modified ART-algorithm (ART-IntraSPECT) was developed and tested with a simulated thorax. The /spl mu/-image reconstructed with ART-IntraSPECT clearly exhibited all relevant anatomical structure, such as lungs and spine vs soft tissue. However, both A and /spl mu/-images were quantitatively inaccurate. The accuracy was considerably improved by applying reasonable tissue-type constraints to the /spl mu/-image.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129389906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multiloop coupled resonator coil design for MRI","authors":"K. Derby","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373565","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes the design of a head coil for use in MRI. The current in the coil is distributed over multiple coupled resonators to achieve both high sensitivity and field uniformity over a large volume. This coupled resonator coil had better uniformity than a saddle coil in all directions. Compared to a birdcage coil, it had similar uniformity in transaxial sections near and inferior to center, and better uniformity in transaxial sections superior to center. The coupled resonator coil was more uniform than the birdcage coil in sagittal sections.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287813,"journal":{"name":"1993 IEEE Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference","volume":"640 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116412428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}