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Introducing extended PET Quality Control (xQC): Fully automated evaluation of protocol compliance and quantifiability of individual datasets

2020; Schattauer Verlag; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1055/s-0040-1708368

2567-6407

Thilo Weitzel, George Prenosil, Bernd Klaeser, Michael Hentschel, Markus Fürstner, Lukas Meier, T Krause, Axel Rominger,

Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging

Ziel/Aim With continuing technological and radiopharmaceutical progress in PET imaging as well as increased use of PET quantification, the demands on PET Quality Control (QC) are growing. However, actual PET QC guidelines focus on equipment, good practice and reference measurements outside clinical routine but do not include actual QC product inspection, i.e. a systematic validation of each of the resulting PET images. We introduce the term ‘extended PET quality control’ (xQC) for PET QC including fully automated QC Inspection of individual datasets and images. Our aim is Proof of Concept for xQC by an in-depth evaluation of PET data from a recent nationwide survey organized by the Swiss Association for Nuclear Medicine.