Chapter I - SPECT Basics

1. Backprojection - in a 5 by 5 matrix with one hot spot
   1. More that one hot spot
   2. Filtered vs unfiltered
   3. Tomographic slices
      1. Transverse
      2. Coronal
      3. Sagittal
2. Basic imaging filtering
   1. Fourier reconstruction
   2. Application of a high pass filter
3. MTF
   1. Parts of the curve
   2. Locate low, mid, and high frequency
   3. Where is noise and background locate

1. Types of orbit
2. Application of zoom
3. Noise and the effects on imaging quality - 64 vs 128
4. Nyquist filter
   1. Calculate
   2. Aliasing
5. Frequency - parts and manipulation
   1. Power spectrum
   2. Noise and application of smoothing filter
   3. Low/High/Band pass filters
   4. Windowing - applying low and high
   5. Use of
      1. Critical frequency
      2. Order
      3. Cutoff
   6. 3-D surface rendering
   7. Triangulation

1. Define/explain
2. Understand the example on how how iterative reconstruction works
   1. Initial guess
   2. Estimated 3D
      1. Patient Specific map - AC
      2. Imaging physics
   3. Estimated 2D Projection- Measured 2D Projection
   4. Comparison
   5. Difference between estimated and measured
   6. 3D error matrix
   7. Starts over - Estimated 3D matrix
3. Maximum-Likelihood vs Ordered-subset
4. Compare FBP to IR

Chapter IV - SPECT Acquisition

1. Imaging Characteristics
   1. Depth
   2. Bkg
   3. Noise
   4. Attenuation and Scatter
   5. Patient motion
2. Partial volume effect
3. Who does planner compare with SPECT?
4. Acquisition parameters
   1. Collimation
   2. Energy window
   3. Matrix size
   4. Zoom
   5. Orbit
   6. Time per stop
   7. Ring artifact

Chapter V - Attenuation Correction

1. How does narrow beam and broad beam effect our imaging
2. Consider attenuation
   1. Hot spot at different distances from the detection
   2. Energy photon and the amount of attenuation
   3. Application of Chang
   4. Application of attenuation correction
      1. Line source
      2. CT
         1. Segmentation
         2. Scaling
         3. Polly vs Mono
         4. Matrix size
   5. Consider the application of
      1. Resolution recover
      2. Scatter compensation
      3. Attenuation correction

Chapter VI - SPECT QC

1. Role of acceptance testing
2. Uniformity
   1. Extrinsic
   2. Intrinsic
3. COR and AOR
4. Reference Scan
5. Detector stability
6. Jaszczak phantom
   1. Part of the phantom and their role
   2. Volume sensitivity
   3. Generation of artifacts
      1. Ring
      2. motion
      3. Ray
      4. Truncation
      5. Collimator integrity