PMID: 9182304Mar 1, 1997Paper

Simulation study of the influence of collimator defects on the uniformity of scintigraphic images

Physics in Medicine and Biology
P GantetR Guiraud

Abstract

The mechanical tolerances in building collimators for scintillation cameras are studied. A simulation method has been used to quantify the effects of defects in hole inclination and hole diameter on the uniformity of planar and tomographic images. The calculation takes into account the geometry of the hexagonal hole collimator, the camera intrinsic resolution, the object size, the pixel size, the effect of low-pass filtering, as well as the type, size and position of the defect. For instance, a 0.03 mm diameter defect on several holes located in the central region of a very high resolution collimator can result in a 12% uniformity artefact in tomographic imaging of an 18 cm diameter cylinder, using a 3.45 mm resolution camera, 4.5 mm pixel size, and Hamming filtering with a Nyquist frequency cut-off. A 0.17 degree inclination defect of a few holes can result in the same uniformity artefact. These results show that the building of a collimator has to be very precise.

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Aug 22, 2006·Journal of Neural Engineering·G PereaG Moreno

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