A Digital Reference Object to Analyze Calculation Accuracy of PET Standardized Uptake Value
Author(s) -
Larry A. Pierce,
Brian F. Elston,
David Clunie,
Dennis P. Nelson,
Paul E. Kinahan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.118
H-Index - 295
eISSN - 1527-1315
pISSN - 0033-8419
DOI - 10.1148/radiol.2015141262
Subject(s) - dicom , standard deviation , imaging phantom , medicine , nuclear medicine , metric (unit) , standardized uptake value , software , voxel , artificial intelligence , medical physics , computer vision , computer science , positron emission tomography , statistics , mathematics , radiology , operations management , economics , programming language
To determine the extent of variations in computing standardized uptake value (SUV) by body weight (SUV(BW)) among different software packages and to propose a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) reference test object to ensure the standardization of SUV computation between medical image viewing workstations.
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