Application of a Flexible PET Scanner Combined with 3 T MRI Using Non-local Means Reconstruction: Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison with Whole-Body PET/CT.

Masao WatanabeKanae Kawai-MiyakeYasutaka FushimiTakayoshi IshimoriAya NakajimaMichio YoshimuraMasahiro KikuchiKazuko OhnoYuji Nakamoto

Published in: Molecular imaging and biology (2021)

Compared with WB PET/CT, the phantom data and image quality were inferior in fxPET. However, the results of the detection rates and quantitative values suggested the clinical feasibility of fxPET.

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