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Braad, P E N; Høilund-Carlsen, P F; Hansen, S B, E-mail: poul-erik.braad@rsyd.dk2015
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[en] Peri-therapeutic I-PET/CT is of interest as guidance for radioiodine therapy. Unfortunately, image quality is complicated by dead time effects and increased random coincidence rates from high I-activities. A series of phantom experiments with clinically relevant I/I-activities were performed on a clinical PET/CT-system. Noise equivalent count rate (NECR) curves and quantitation accuracy were determined from repeated scans performed over several weeks on a decaying NEMA NU-2 1994 cylinder phantom initially filled with 25 MBq I and 1250 MBq I. Six spherical inserts with diameters 10–37 mm were filled with I (0.45 MBq ml) and I (22 MBq ml) and placed inside the background of the NEMA/IEC torso phantom. Contrast recovery, background variability and the accuracy of scatter and attenuation corrections were assessed at sphere-to-background activity ratios of 20, 10 and 5. Results were compared to pure I-acquisitions. The quality of I-PET images in the presence of high I-activities was good and image quantification unaffected except at very high count rates. Quantitation accuracy and contrast recovery were uninfluenced at I-activities below 1000 MBq, whereas image noise was slightly increased. The NECR peaked at 550 MBq of I, where it was 2.8 times lower than without I in the phantom. Quantitative peri-therapeutic I-PET is feasible. (paper)
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/60/13/5297; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY, DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, IODINE ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, MEDICINE, MOCKUP, NUCLEAR MEDICINE, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, RADIOISOTOPES, RADIOLOGY, STRUCTURAL MODELS, THERAPY, TIMING PROPERTIES, TOMOGRAPHY
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