Open AccessQuantification of Positron Emission Tomography Data Using Simultaneous Estimation of the Input Function: Validation with Venous Blood and Replication of Clinical Studies
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Bartlett,
Mala Ananth,
Samantha Rossano,
Mengru Zhang,
Jie Yang,
Shu-fei Lin,
Nabeel Nabulsi,
Yiyun Huang,
Francesca Zanderigo,
Ramin V. Parsey,
Christine DeLorenzo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
molecular imaging and biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1860-2002
pISSN - 1536-1632
DOI - 10.1007/s11307-018-1300-1
Subject(s) - positron emission tomography , venous blood , nuclear medicine , medicine , blood sampling , arterial blood , radiology
To determine if one venous blood sample can substitute full arterial sampling in quantitative modeling for multiple positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers using simultaneous estimation of the input function (SIME).