Quantitative implications of the updated EARL 2019 PET-CT performance standards.

Andres KaalepCoreline N BurggraaffSimone PieplenboschEline E VerwerTerez SeraJosee ZijlstraOtto S HoekstraDaniela E Oprea-LagerRonald Boellaard

Published in: EJNMMI physics (2019)

Application of EARL2 standards can result in higher SUVs, reduced MATV and slightly changed TLG values relative to EARL1. Applying a Gaussian filter to PET images reconstructed using EARL2 parameters successfully yielded EARL1 compliant data.

Keyphrases

pet ct
positron emission tomography
computed tomography
deep learning
high resolution
big data
convolutional neural network
artificial intelligence
mass spectrometry