Table 1 Current scanning and reconstruction protocol
From: Patient-specific optimisation of administered activity and acquisition times for 18F-FDG PET imaging
Scanner | Siemens Biograph mCT with an extended axial field of view |
Activity administered | 3 MBq per kg of body weight up to a maximum of 370 MBq |
Uptake time | 60 min |
Time per bed position | 3 min increased to 4 min for BMI greater than 30 |
Bed overlap | 42% |
Attenuation correction | CT |
Reconstruction method | TrueX + TOF (UltraHD-PET) |
Iterations/subsets | 2/21 |
Filter | Gaussian 2 mm FWHM |
Matrix | 200 × 200 × 75 |
Voxel dimensions (mm) | 4.1 × 4.1 × 3.0 |