The influence of CT based attenuation correction on PET/CT registration: an evaluation study

Ziv Yaniv; Kenneth H. Wong; Filip Banovac; Elliot Levy; Kevin Cleary

doi:10.1117/12.711146

22 March 2007 The influence of CT based attenuation correction on PET/CT registration: an evaluation study

Ziv Yaniv, Kenneth H. Wong, Filip Banovac, Elliot Levy, Kevin Cleary

Proceedings Volume 6509, Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures; 650934 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.711146
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We are currently developing a PET/CT based navigation system for guidance of biopsies and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of early stage hepatic tumors. For these procedures, combined PET/CT data can potentially improve current interventions. The diagnostic efficacy of biopsies can potentially be improved by accurately targeting the region within the tumor that exhibits the highest metabolic activity. For RFA procedures the system can potentially enable treatment of early stage tumors, targeting tumors before structural abnormalities are clearly visible on CT. In both cases target definition is based on the metabolic data (PET), and navigation is based on the spatial data (CT), making the system highly dependent upon accurate spatial alignment between these data sets. In our institute all clinical data sets include three image volumes: one CT, and two PET volumes, with and without CT-based attenuation correction. This paper studies the effect of the CT-based attenuation correction on the registration process. From comparing the pairs of registrations from five data sets we observe that the point motion magnitude difference between registrations is on the same scale as the point motion magnitude in each one of the registrations, and that visual inspection cannot identify this discrepancy. We conclude that using non-rigid registration to align the PET and CT data sets is too variable, and most likely does not provide sufficient accuracy for interventional procedures.

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Ziv Yaniv, Kenneth H. Wong, Filip Banovac, Elliot Levy, and Kevin Cleary "The influence of CT based attenuation correction on PET/CT registration: an evaluation study", Proc. SPIE 6509, Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures, 650934 (22 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.711146

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Positron emission tomography

Signal attenuation

Image registration

Computed tomography

Navigation systems

Tumors

Data acquisition

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