Reduced count pediatric whole-body 18 F-FDG PET imaging reconstruction with a Bayesian penalized likelihood algorithm.

Vinicius de Padua V AlvesNadeen Abu AtaJoseph MacLeanSusan E SharpYinan LiSamuel BradyAndrew T Trout

Published in: Pediatric radiology (2023)

F-FDG PET/CT on a 25-cm FOV digital PET/CT scanner, reductions in acquisition time or, by corollary, administered radiopharmaceutical activity of >50% from a clinical standard of 90 s/bed may be possible while maintaining diagnostic quality when a BSREM reconstruction algorithm is used.

Keyphrases

pet ct
pet imaging
positron emission tomography
machine learning
deep learning
computed tomography
neural network
quality improvement
peripheral blood
magnetic resonance imaging
image quality