Head-to-head comparison between digital and analog PET of human and phantom images when optimized for maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio from small lesions.

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Date publication

février 2020

Journal

EJNMMI physics

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr KARCHER Gilles , Pr MARIE Pierre-Yves , Pr OLIVIER Pierre , Pr VERGER Antoine

Tous les auteurs :
Salvadori J, Odille F, Verger A, Olivier P, Karcher G, Marie PY, Imbert L

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32086646

Résumé

Routine PET exams are increasingly performed with reduced injected activities, leading to the use of different image reconstruction parameters than the NEMA parameters, in order to prevent from any deleterious decrease in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and thus, in lesion detectability. This study aimed to provide a global head-to-head comparison between digital (Vereos, Philips®) and analog (Ingenuity TF, Philips®) PET cameras of the trade-off between SNR and contrast through a wide-ranging number of reconstruction iterations, and with a further reconstruction optimization based on the SNR of small lesions.