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PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 8, Pages 1837-1850Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/8/014
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- NCI NIH HHS [R24 CA092865, R24 CA 92865] Funding Source: Medline
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Attenuation correction is one of the important corrections required for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). This work will compare the quantitative accuracy of attenuation correction using a simple global scale factor with traditional transmission-based methods acquired either with a small animal PET or a small animal x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner. Two phantoms (one mouse-sized and one rat-sized) and two animal subjects (one mouse and one rat) were scanned in CTI Concorde Microsystem's microPET((R)) Focus(TM) for emission and transmission data and in ImTek's MicroCAT(TM) II for transmission data. PET emission image values were calibrated against a scintillation well counter. Results indicate that the scale factor method of attenuation correction places the average measured activity concentration about the expected value, without correcting for the cupping artefact from attenuation. Noise analysis in the phantom studies with the PET-based method shows that noise in the transmission data increases the noise in the corrected emission data. The CT-based method was accurate and delivered low-noise images suitable for both PET data correction and PET tracer localization.
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