Open AccessEffect of blood glucose and body weight on image quality in brain [18F]FDG PET imaging
Author(s) -
Otto Mølby Henriksen,
Søren Holm,
Lisbeth Marner,
Ian Law
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nuclear medicine communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.489
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1473-5628
pISSN - 0143-3636
DOI - 10.1097/mnm.0000000000001281
Subject(s) - image quality , medicine , image noise , nuclear medicine , image contrast , body weight , contrast (vision) , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , computer science
The aims of the present study were to assess the influence of mild to moderate hyperglycaemia and body weight on brain 2-[F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ([F]FDG) PET, and to what extent a simple algorithm for maintaining count density may compensate for these effects.