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Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) L1-034

Medical ImagingGamma-camera rotating tomographyδ=5 · challengingL_DAG = 3.5📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT): spect gamma camera produces the measurement through a 5-node primitive DAG L.gamma_emission -> L.collimator -> S.scan.angular -> L.backproject -> int.angular, with multi-angle tomographic integration and photon-shot-noise-limited (Poisson counting). Recovery is posed as a linear inverse problem that inverts the forward operator to estimate the scene-side 3D activity concentration. Difficulty tier delta=5 with effective condition number kappa_eff~16; calibration-level mismatch (collimator_blur, attenuation_correction_error, scatter) sets the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form imaging equation.

L-DAG

L.gamma_emission -> L.collimator -> S.scan.angular -> L.backproject -> int.angular
L.gamma_emissionL.collimatorS.scan.angularL.backprojectint.angular

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
320

Existence of the recovered 3D activity concentration is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness holds on the measurement-supported subspace; out-of-support modes are controlled by the declared priors. Stability is moderately conditioned (kappa_eff ~= 16); collimator_blur dominates the stability cliff; attenuation_correction_error and the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Photon-shot-noise-limited (poisson counting) sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor, while TV / wavelet-sparsity / deep priors stabilise recovery at the ill-conditioned end of Omega.

Solvability C

Solver class:
linear-operator + convex optimisation [FBP-SPECT] | iterative projection (ADMM / GAP) + optimisation [MLEM] | linear-operator + deep neural prior [SPECT-Net]
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(H * W * Z * log(...)) per iteration; learned variants: O(H W Z * F_theta_cost) per forward pass

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