Abstract
We are proposing a regularized reconstruction strategy for the detection of bone lesions in 18F-fluoride whole body PET images obtained with 1 min/ bed using the anatomical information provided by co-registered CT images. Bones are recognized on CT images and then transposed into the PET volume framework. During PET reconstruction, two different priors are used for bone and non-bone voxels: the relative difference prior in bone and the P-Gaussian prior in non-bone. After a tuning of the priors' parameters, the reconstruction strategy has been tested on 6 18F-fluoride PET/CT studies, on a total of 67 lesions. Regularized images provided results comparable to the standard 3 min/bed images, in terms image quality, lesion activity, noise level and noise correlation. The proposed strategy therefore appears to be a useful tool to reduce the acquisition time or the injected dose in 18F-fluoride PET studies.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 67 |
Pages (from-to) | 67-80 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Physics in Medicine and Biology |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 7 2015 |
Keywords
- F-fluoride PET
- Bone segmentation
- Dose/acquisition time reduction
- Regularized maximum likelihood reconstruction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
- Medicine(all)