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Impact of the Noise Penalty Factor on Quantification in Bayesian Penalized Likelihood (Q.Clear) Reconstructions of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT Scans.
Rijnsdorp, Sjoerd; Roef, Mark J; Arends, Albert J.
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  • Rijnsdorp S; Department of Medical Physics, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Michelangelolaan 2, 5623 EJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  • Roef MJ; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Michelangelolaan 2, 5623 EJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  • Arends AJ; Department of Medical Physics, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Michelangelolaan 2, 5623 EJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Diagnostics (Basel) ; 11(5)2021 May 08.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34066854
Functional imaging with 68Ga prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and positron emission tomography (PET) can fulfill an important role in treatment selection and adjustment in prostate cancer. This article focusses on quantitative assessment of 68Ga-PSMA-PET. The effect of various parameters on standardized uptake values (SUVs) is explored, and an optimal Bayesian penalized likelihood (BPL) reconstruction is suggested. PET acquisitions of two phantoms consisting of a background compartment and spheres with diameter 4 mm to 37 mm, both filled with solutions of 68Ga in water, were performed with a GE Discovery 710 PET/CT scanner. Recovery coefficients (RCs) in multiple reconstructions with varying noise penalty factors and acquisition times were determined and analyzed. Apparent recovery coefficients of spheres with a diameter smaller than 17 mm were significantly lower than those of spheres with a diameter of 17 mm and bigger (p < 0.001) for a tumor-to-background (T/B) ratio of 10:1 and a scan time of 10 min per bed position. With a T/B ratio of 10:1, the four largest spheres exhibit significantly higher RCs than those with a T/B ratio of 20:1 (p < 0.0001). For spheres with a diameter of 8 mm and less, alignment with the voxel grid potentially affects the RC. Evaluation of PET/CT scans using (semi-)quantitative measures such as SUVs should be performed with great caution, as SUVs are influenced by scanning and reconstruction parameters. Based on the evaluation of multiple reconstructions with different ß of phantom scans, an intermediate ß (600) is suggested as the optimal value for the reconstruction of clinical 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT scans, considering that both detectability and reproducibility are relevant.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Diagnostics (Basel) Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Países Bajos Pais de publicación: Suiza

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Diagnostics (Basel) Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Países Bajos Pais de publicación: Suiza