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Table 1 Used PET systems and image reconstruction details

From: Monitoring scanner calibration using the image-derived arterial blood SUV in whole-body FDG-PET

 

Site 1

Site 2

Site 3

Scanner type

Biograph 16 PET/CT, Siemens Medical Solutions, Knoxville, TN, USA

Ingenuity-TF PET/MR, Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands

Biograph mCT 64 PET/CT, Siemens Medical Solutions, Knoxville, TN, USA

PET calibration procedure

Vendor specific

Vendor specific

EARL certified

Residual error

< 3%

< 4%

< 5%

Scan duration per bed position [min]

3

2

3

Reconstruction method

OSEM

BLOB-OS TF

PSF+TOF

Iterations/subsets

4i/8s

3i/32s

2i/21s

PET

   

Matrix size

168×168

144×144

200×200

Voxel size

4.1×4.1×5.0 mm3

4.0×4.0×4.0 mm3

4.1×4.1×3.0 mm3

Filter (FWHM)

Gaussian (5 mm)

n/a

Gaussian (5 mm)

Attenuation correction

CTAC

MRAC (non-TC)

CTAC

CT / MR

CT

MR

CT

Matrix size

512×512

320×320

512×512

Voxel size

1.4×1.4×5.0 mm3

1.9×1.9×6.0 mm3

1.5×1.5×3.0 mm3