Abstract:Objectives The metabolic tumor volume (MTV) of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is an important index to evaluate the prognosis and the responses of treatments. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of Bayesian Penalized Likelihood (BPL) reconstruction algorithm and segmentation methods on the accuracy of MTV via a phantom study.Methods Using the National Electrical Manufactures Association/International Electrotechnical Commission (NEMA/IEC) image quality phantom, six hot … Show more
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