TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantification and reduction of respiratory induced artifacts in positron emission tomography/computed tomography using the time-of-flight technique
AU - Sharifpour, Roya
AU - Ghafarian, Pardis
AU - Rahmim, Arman
AU - Ay, Mohammad R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of time-of-flight (TOF) on quantification and reduction of respiratory artifacts. Patients and methods The National Electrical Manufacturers Association phantom was used for optimization of reconstruction parameters. Twenty seven patients with lesions located in the diaphragmatic region were evaluated. The PET images were retrospectively reconstructed using non-TOF (routine protocol in our department) and TOF algorithms with different reconstruction parameters. Maximum standardized uptake value, estimated maximum tumor diameter, coefficient of variation, signal-to-noise ratio, and lesion-to-background-ratio were also evaluated. Results On the basis of phantom experiments, TOF algorithms with two iterations, 18 subsets, and 5.4 mm and 6.4 mm postsmoothing filter reduced the noise by 3.1 and 12.6% in phantom with 2: 1 activity ratio, and 3.0 and 13.1% in phantom with 4: 1 activity ratio. The TOF algorithm with two iterations, 18 subsets, and 6.4 mm postsmoothing filter had the highest signal-to-noise value, and was selected as the optimal TOF reconstruction. Mean relative difference for signal-to-noise between non-TOF and optimal TOF in phantom with 2: 1 and 4: 1 activity ratio were 11.6 and 18.7%, respectively. In clinical data, the mean relative difference for estimated maximum tumor diameter and maximum standardized uptake value between routine protocol and optimal TOF algorithm were -6.3% (range: -20.4 to -0.6%) and 13.2% (range: 0.3-57.6%), respectively. Conclusion Integration of TOF in reconstruction algorithm remarkably improved the white band artifact in the diaphragmatic region. This technique affected the quantification accuracy and resulted in smaller tumor size and higher standardized uptake value in tumors located in/near the diaphragmatic region.
AB - Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of time-of-flight (TOF) on quantification and reduction of respiratory artifacts. Patients and methods The National Electrical Manufacturers Association phantom was used for optimization of reconstruction parameters. Twenty seven patients with lesions located in the diaphragmatic region were evaluated. The PET images were retrospectively reconstructed using non-TOF (routine protocol in our department) and TOF algorithms with different reconstruction parameters. Maximum standardized uptake value, estimated maximum tumor diameter, coefficient of variation, signal-to-noise ratio, and lesion-to-background-ratio were also evaluated. Results On the basis of phantom experiments, TOF algorithms with two iterations, 18 subsets, and 5.4 mm and 6.4 mm postsmoothing filter reduced the noise by 3.1 and 12.6% in phantom with 2: 1 activity ratio, and 3.0 and 13.1% in phantom with 4: 1 activity ratio. The TOF algorithm with two iterations, 18 subsets, and 6.4 mm postsmoothing filter had the highest signal-to-noise value, and was selected as the optimal TOF reconstruction. Mean relative difference for signal-to-noise between non-TOF and optimal TOF in phantom with 2: 1 and 4: 1 activity ratio were 11.6 and 18.7%, respectively. In clinical data, the mean relative difference for estimated maximum tumor diameter and maximum standardized uptake value between routine protocol and optimal TOF algorithm were -6.3% (range: -20.4 to -0.6%) and 13.2% (range: 0.3-57.6%), respectively. Conclusion Integration of TOF in reconstruction algorithm remarkably improved the white band artifact in the diaphragmatic region. This technique affected the quantification accuracy and resulted in smaller tumor size and higher standardized uptake value in tumors located in/near the diaphragmatic region.
KW - F-FDG PET/CT
KW - lesion size
KW - quantification
KW - respiratory artifact
KW - standardized uptake value
KW - time-of-flight
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U2 - 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000732
DO - 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000732
M3 - Article
C2 - 28863124
AN - SCOPUS:85032176341
SN - 0143-3636
VL - 38
SP - 948
EP - 955
JO - Nuclear medicine communications
JF - Nuclear medicine communications
IS - 11
ER -