Comparison between a dual-time-window protocol and other simplified protocols for dynamic total-body 18F-FDG PET imaging

• Published in: EJNMMI physics Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 63 - 17
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhenguo, Wu, Yaping, Li, Xiaochen, Bai, Yan, Chen, Hongzhao, Ding, Jie, Shen, Chushu, Hu, Zhanli, Liang, Dong, Liu, Xin, Zheng, Hairong, Yang, Yongfeng, Zhou, Yun, Wang, Meiyun, Sun, Tao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 14.09.2022; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Aorta; Applied and Technical Physics; Arteries; Cerebral cortex; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Correlation; Engineering; Feasibility; Fluorine isotopes; Image quality; Imaging; Kinetic modeling; Medical imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Missing data; Muscles; Nuclear Medicine; Original Research; Parameters; Parametric imaging; Positron emission; Protocol; Radiology; Simplified protocol; Tomography; Total-body PET; Tumors; Visual tasks; Kinetic modeling; Parametric imaging; Simplified protocol; Total-body PET

Purpose Efforts have been made both to avoid invasive blood sampling and to shorten the scan duration for dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. A total-body scanner, such as the uEXPLORER PET/CT, can relieve these challenges through the following features: First, the whole-body coverag...