whole-body PET scanner
Monitoring scanner calibration using the image-derived arterial blood SUV in whole-body FDG-PET
... As with any other physiological parameters (e.g., blood glucose level, blood pressure), BSUV follows a certain unknown distribution function in the total population. For any representative sample drawn from the ...
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Motion Correction of Whole-Body PET Data with a Joint PET-MRI Registration Functional
... For PET data creation an XCAT dataset with lesions added to the lungs and the liver was created (heart 50 kBq/ml, liver 20 kBq/ml, background 2 kBq/ml, lesions 50 kBq/ml, lesion diameter 5 ...
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Impact of Integrated Whole Body 68Ga PET/MR Imaging in Comparison with 68Ga PET/CT in Lesions Detection and Diagnosis of Suspected Neuroendocrine Tumours
... day PET/CT and PET/MR imaging with different oncologic applications, including diseases in body regions where MR is already the gold standard and that might be considered difficult to evaluate with ...
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Interobserver variability of image-derived arterial blood SUV in whole-body FDG PET
... unit body weight, is essentially the only means for quantitative evaluation of static [ 18 F-] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomogra- phy (PET) ...in scanner calibration [1–3], which ...
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Chelator-Free Radiolabeling of SERRS Nanoparticles for Whole-Body PET and Intraoperative Raman Imaging
... offers whole-body non-invasive imaging along with the superior sensitivity and spatial resolution of surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) imaging would allow both pre-operative mapping and ...
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Cell therapy for ARDS: efficacy of endobronchial versus intravenous administration and biodistribution of MAPCs in a large animal model
... a whole- body PET/ CT scan was obtained using a Biograph mCT Flow PET/ CT scanner (Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pennsylvania, ...shoot’ PET acquisition was employed ...
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Effects of ferumoxytol on quantitative PET measurements in simultaneous PET/MR whole-body imaging: a pilot study in a baboon model
... Simultaneous PET/MR imaging depends on MR-derived attenuation maps (mu-maps) for accurate attenuation correction of PET ...F-FDG PET standardized uptake values (SUV) through effects on MR-derived ...
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An Investigation of the Required MR Bone Attenuation Correction for Quantitative Whole Body PET/MR Imaging Using Clinical NaF PET/CT Studies
... DOI: 10.4236/ijmpcero.2018.73023 292 Int. J. Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology Discovery 690 PET/CT scanner using four different setups that introduced dif- ferent degrees of beam ...
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High bone turnover assessed by 18F-fluoride PET/CT in the spine and sacroiliac joints of patients with ankylosing spondylitis: comparison with inflammatory lesions detected by whole body MRI
... bined PET/CT system (Discovery RX or Discovery STE, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, ...a PET scanner and a multi-slice helical CT scanner (16 or 64 slices) permitting the acquisition of ...
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Abstracts of the Total Body PET conference 2018
... clinical whole body (WB) PET scanner with ~25 cm axial length coverage in one scanner pos- ition and the research EXPLORER type very large axial length (up to over 200 cm) scanners that ...
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Implementation of quadratic dose protocol for 18F-FDG whole-body PET imaging using a BGO-based PET/CT scanner, GE Discovery ST
... Despite the long acquisition time and greater effective dose, implementation of quadratic dose protocol is necessary for better quantification of the image, as well as [r] ...
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PET performance evaluation of a pre-clinical SiPM-Based MR-Compatible PET Scanner
... a PET performance evaluation a silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) based PET scanner designed for fully simultaneous pre-clinical PET/MR ...The PET scanner has an inner diameter of ...
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A prospective study determining and comparing the diagnostic accuracy of fluoride-PET/CT, choline-PET/CT, whole-body bone SPECT/CT and whole-body MRI for the detection of bone metastases in patients with prostate cancer
... In patients with a concordant diagnosis of the three index tests regarding the number of bone metastases (i.e. all three methods detected either 0, 1 – 5 or > 5 bone metastases), this diagnosis was considered the ...
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Validation and evaluation of a GATE model for MAMMI PET scanner
... The improvement in sensitivity in the quad ring configuration of the MAMMI PET leads to a substantial increase in the number of counts registered at a given activity,[r] ...
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Toxicity and radiation dosimetry studies of the serotonin transporter radioligand [18 F]AFM in rats and monkeys
... Toxicity studies of AFM were carried out in rats to de- termine potential toxic effects, identify potential target organs of toxicity, and determine its NOAEL. Since some patients may undergo [ 18 F]AFM PET ...
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Body measurement using 3D handheld scanner
... 3D whole body scanner has made non-contact body measurement become a reality due to its capacity to capture a vast amount of ...the whole body scanner is quite ...handheld ...
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Whole-body MRI versus <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/CT for pretherapeutic assessment and staging of lymphoma: a meta-analysis
... of the studies, they differed in the sequence, acquisition plane, and slice thickness used and in the body area imaged (Table 5). Additionally, in the process of image interpreta- tion, the criteria for ...
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High-speed scanning of planar images showing 123I-MIBG uptake using a whole-body CZT camera: a phantom and clinical study
... Lewy body diseases (LBD). Discovery NM/CT 670 CZT, a novel whole-body scanner, enables direct HMR measurements in planar images, in contrast to cardiac- dedicated CZT-based cameras which ...
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Qualitative and Quantitative Performance of 18F FDG PET/MRI versus 18F FDG PET/CT in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
... the whole-body T1-weighted sequence for attenuation correc- tion, we acquired, in 12 of the 14 patients, extra MR images, but the protocol was not ...underwent PET/CT, followed by PET/MR ...
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Optimized dose regimen for whole-body FDG-PET imaging
... of whole-body FDG-PET scans decreases for obese patients, which can result in false-negative PET ...and body mass or a different patient-dependent parameter, e.g. body mass index ...
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