M10-107 Transmission Images and Attenuation Correction with Short Acquisitions Using Median Root Prior Reconstruction in PET
S. Alenius¹, U. Ruotsalainen², J. Astola^{1
1Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland, 2Turku PET Centre, Finland}

M10-109 List Mode Reconstruction of Compton Scatter Camera Images in Nuclear Medicine
S.J. Wilderman¹, N.H. Clinthorne¹, J.A. Fessler¹, W.L. Rogers^{1
1Univ. of Michigan}

M10-111 Basic Performance of a PET Scanner, EXACT HR+, with Adjustable Data-Acquisition Parameters
T. Hasegawa¹, Y. Wada², H. Murayama³, T. Nakajima^{3
1Kitasato Univ., School of Allied Health Sci., 2Siemens-Asahi Medical Technologies Ltd., 3National Inst. for Radiological Sci. (NIRS)}

M10-113 Detectability Limits for a Dual Head Coincidence Imaging System
R.S. Miyaoka¹, S.G. Kohlmyer¹, T.K. Lewellen^{1
1Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Washington}

M10-115 Estimation of Kinetic Constants in Double Injection FDG-PET Studies: Application in Neurology and Oncology
M. Bentourkia¹, A. Bol¹, J. Bodart¹, C. Michel¹, A. Coppens¹, M. Sibomana¹, D. Labar¹, A. DeVolder^{1
1Positron Tomography Laboratory, Univ. of Louvain, 2 Chemin du Cyclotron, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium}

M10-117 Quantifying Cerebral PET with FDG using Dynamic Internal Carotid Arteries Imaging
R. Trebossen¹, B. Bendriem¹, M. Ribeiro¹, M. Sarazin¹, D. Strul¹, S. DuPont¹, F. Semah¹, P. Remy^{1
1Service Hospitalier F. Joliot, CEA, 4 place du General Leclerc, Orsay France.}

M10-119 Effect of Lower Energy Threshold on Single and Multiple Scatter Distributions in Positron Volume Imaging
T.K. Lewellen¹, R.L. Harrison¹, S.K. Kohlmyer^{1
1Univ. of Washington Medical Center}

M10-121 A Flexible Image Smoothing and Segmenting Prior to Parametric Estimation
M. Bentourkia¹, A. Bol¹, C. Michel¹, A. Coppens¹, M. Sibomana¹, D. Labar¹, A. DeVolder^{1
1Positron Tomography Laboratory, Univ. of Louvain, 2 Chemin du Cyclotron, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium}

M10-123 Lesion Enhancement in Dynamic Positron Emission Tomography Using Subspace Filtering
C.I. Hu¹, C.E. Huang², Y.E. Xiaoli^{2
1C Huang, 2Xiaoli Yu}

M10-125 A Method for Optimization of Fuzzy Reasoning by Genetic Algorithms and Its Application to Discrimination of Myocardial Heart Disease
D. Tsai¹, S. Watanabe^{1
1Dept. of Electrical Eng., Gifu National College of Tech.}

M10-127 Absolute Quantitation of Myocardial Activity in Phantoms
A.J. Da Silva¹, H. Tang², B.H. Hasegawa^{1,2
1Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of California San Francisco, 2Bioengineering Graduate Group, Univ. of California San Francisco and Berkeley}

M10-129 SPECT Image Reconstruction using MDLS-dependent Multiresolution Filtering
J. Kim¹, K. Kim^{2
1POSTECH Information Research Laboratory, Pohang Univ. of Sci. and Tech., 2Dept. of Mathematics, Pohang Univ. of Sci. and Tech.}

M10-131 A Practical 3D Tomographic Method for Correcting Patient Head Motion in Clinical SPECT
R.R. Fulton¹, S. Eberl¹, S.R. Meikle¹, B.F. Hutton², M. Braun^{3
1Dept. of PET & Nuclear Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 2Dept. of Medical Physics, Westmead Hospital, 3Dept. of Applied Physics, Univ. of Tech. Sydney}

M10-133 Unique Solutions for Factor Analysis of Dynamic Structures in Dynamic SPECT Imaging Using Maximum Entropy
A. Sitek¹, E. Di Bella¹, G.T. Gullberg^{1
1Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of Utah}

M10-135 The Use of Image Morphing to Improve the Detection of Small Breast Tumors in Emission Imaging
C.J. Dykstra¹, A.M. Celler², R.J. Jaszczak^{1
1Duke Univ. Medical Center, Box 3949, Durham, North Carolina, , 2Division of Nuclear Medicine, VGH, 855 W. 12th Ave., Vancouver, Canada}

M10-137 Quantification of Regional Left Ventricular Function from Cardiac Gated Blood Pool SPECT Studies
P.M. Mansour^1,2, M.F. Smith¹, W.C. Barker¹, S.L. Bacharach^{1
1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD , 2Univ. of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD}

M10-139 Simulation Studies of the Decreased Activity in the Apical Region for Fan-Beam Cardiac SPECT
C. Bai¹, G.L. Zeng¹, D.J. Kadrmas¹, G.T. Gullberg^{1
1Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of Utah}

M10-141 Modeling Scatter in Multiple Energy Windows for Incorporating Scattered Radiation Information in SPECT Imaging
Z.I. Liu¹, T.E. Obi¹, M.E. Yamaguchi¹, N.E. Ohyama^{1
1Zheng Liu, Takashi Obi, Masahiro Yamaguchi and Nagaaki Ohyama}

M10-143 Influence of Out-of-Field-of-View Radioactivity on 3D PET Dynamic Measurement with [11C]MP4A
T. Hasegawa¹, M. Suzuki², H. Murayama³, T. Irie³, K. Fukushi³, Y. Wada^{4
1Kitasato Univ., School of Allied Health Sci., 2Inagi Municipal Hospital, 3National Inst. for Radiological Sci. (NIRS), 4Siemens-Asahi Medical Technologies Ltd.}

M10-145 Image-Space 3D Scatter Correction Following List-Mode Acquisition with a Large-Area Positron Camera
R.J. Ott¹, M.A. Flower¹, A.J. Reader¹, K. Erlandsson^{1
1Physics Dept., Royal Marsden Hospital/Inst. of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PT, UK}

M10-147 The Influence of Estimated Image Filtering on Image Quality in 3D Whole Body PET
T. Schmitz¹, J. Noetzel¹, H. Herzog^{1
1Inst. für Medizin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D- Jülich}

M10-149 Attenuation Correction with Low Activity Sources
N. Wainer¹, J. Bouhnik¹, M. Wilk¹, P. Chouraqui^{2
1Elgems Ltd., 2Tel-Aviv Univ., Haim Sheeba Medical Center}

M10-151 Effect of AsF-TCT Duration on Estimation of Defect Size and Severity in Cardiac SPECT Imaging
E.F. Hollinger¹, M.K. West¹, W. Chang^{1
1Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL}

M10-153 Comparison of Three Applications for ConTraSPECT
I. Laurette¹, A. Welch², F. Natterer³, R. Clackdoyle¹, G.T. Gullberg^{1
1Dept. of Radiology, the Univ. of Utah, USA, 2Dept. of Biomedical Physics and Bioengineering,, 3Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotlandd, 4Universitat Münster, Münster, Germany}

M10-155 Factors Affecting Non-Uniform Attenuation Compensation for SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
S. Jang¹, J.R. Saffer¹, R.J. Smith¹, J.S. Karp^{1
1Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical Center}

M10-157 Evaluation of Maximum Likelihood based Attenuation Correction in Positron Emission Tomography
J. Nuyts¹, P. Dupont¹, S. Stroobants¹, A. Maes¹, L. Mortelmans¹, P. Suetens^{2
1Nuclear Medicine, K.U.Leuven, B3000 Leuven, Belgium, 2ESAT-PSI, K.U.Leuven, B3000 Leuven, Belgium}

M10-159 Scan Time Optimization For Post-injection PET Scans
H. Erdogan¹, J.A. Fessler^{1
1Univ. of Michigan}

M10-161 Multiple Point Sources Collimated with Transaxial Septa for High Energy Gamma Camera Transmission Scanning
T.G. Turkington¹, C.M. Laymon¹, N. Wainer², R.E. Coleman^{1
1Radiology Dept., Duke Univ. Medical Center, 2Elgems, Ltd.}

M10-163 PET Attenuation Correction using Mean Attenuation Coefficients: A Simulation Study
M.T. Madsen^{1
1Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA}

M10-165 New Accelerating Method in Photon Transport in Monte Carlo Simulation
T. Satoh¹, K. Ogawa^{1
1Hosei Univ., Tokyo, Japan}