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Table 3 Variables used in the study

From: Optimisation of quantitative lung SPECT applied to mild COPD: a software phantom simulation study

 

Values

Acquisition

 

  Activity levels

25 and 125 MBq

  Collimators

LEHR and LEGP

Reconstruction

 

  Number of iterations

2, 4, 6,…, 20 with 16 subsets, i.e. 32 to 320 updates

  Cutoff frequencies

0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 cm−1 and no filtering

Analysis

 

  Kernel edge lengths

1.0, 1.7, 2.3 and 3.0 cm (i.e. 3, 5, 7 and 9 voxels)

  Volume of analysis

The whole lung and the reduced lung