Use of a qualification phantom for PET brain imaging in a multicenter consortium: a collaboration between the pediatric brain tumor consortium and the SNMMI clinical …

F Fahey, P Christian, K Zukotynski… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
The purpose of this study was to assess image quality and quantitative brain PET across a
multicenter consortium. Methods: All academic centers and children's hospitals in the …

Variability in PET quantitation within a multicenter consortium

FH Fahey, PE Kinahan, RK Doot, M Kocak… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the variability in quantitation of positron
emission tomography (PET) data acquired within the context of a multicenter consortium …

Feasibility of brain PET/CT harmonization-a multicenter, multivendor pilot study

R Boellaard, S Golla, A Kaleep, M Lubberink… - 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
286 Objectives: Use of quantitative brain PET studies in multicentre trials requires
harmonized PET image quality and quantification. The purpose of this study was to explore …

Clinical evaluation of reconstruction and acquisition time for pediatric 18F-FDG brain PET using digital PET/CT

NA Shkumat, R Vali, A Shammas - Pediatric radiology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background 18 F-2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography
(PET) plays an important role in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of childhood …

Next-generation brain PET-Current observations and future trends

J Zhang, K Binzel, M Friel, M Knopp, W Wei, D Scharre… - 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
430 Objectives: PET is regaining a critical role with unique capabilities for brain molecular
imaging of biologic and neurological pathways and disease process. This study is to …

Impact of PET/CT system, reconstruction protocol, data analysis method, and repositioning on PET/CT precision: An experimental evaluation using an oncology and …

S Mansor, E Pfaehler, D Heijtel, MA Lodge… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In longitudinal oncological and brain PET/CT studies, it is important to understand
the repeatability of quantitative PET metrics in order to assess change in tracer uptake. The …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of brain PET imaging for a multicentre trial: the French CATI experience

MO Habert, S Marie, H Bertin, M Reynal, JB Martini… - EJNMMI physics, 2016 - Springer
CATI is a French initiative launched in 2010 to handle the neuroimaging of a large cohort of
subjects recruited for an Alzheimer's research program called MEMENTO. This paper …

Performance assessment of a preclinical PET scanner with pinhole collimation by comparison to a coincidence-based small-animal PET scanner

MD Walker, MC Goorden, K Dinelle… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET imaging of rodents is increasingly used in preclinical research, but its utility is limited by
spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of the images. A recently developed preclinical …

[HTML][HTML] Harmonisation of PET/CT contrast recovery performance for brain studies

EE Verwer, SSV Golla, A Kaalep, M Lubberink… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose In order to achieve comparability of image quality, harmonisation of PET system
performance is imperative. In this study, prototype harmonisation criteria for PET brain …

Performance Evaluation of a Next-generation Human Brain PET Imager: the NeuroEXPLORER

H Li, R Badawi, S Cherry, K Fontaine, L He, L Hu… - 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
P801 Introduction: We (Yale, UC Davis, United Imaging) have successfully developed
NeuroEXPLORER (NX), a dedicated human brain PET/CT imager with high spatial …