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BACKGROUND: Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of 90Y following selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) is possible, but image quality is poor, and therefore, accurate quantification and dosimetry are challenging. This study aimed to quantitatively optimise 90Y PET imaging using a new Bayesian penalised likelihood (BPL) reconstruction algorithm (Q.Clear, GE Healthcare). The length of time per bed was also investigated to study its impact on quantification accuracy. METHODS: A NEMA IQ phantom with an 8:1 sphere-to-background ratio was scanned overnight on a GE Discovery 710 PET/CT scanner. Datasets were rebinned into varying lengths of time (5-60 min); the 15-min rebins were reconstructed using BPL reconstruction with a range of noise penalisation weighting factors (beta values). The metrics of contrast recovery (CR), background variability (BV), and recovered activity percentage (RAP) were calculated in order to identify the optimum beta value. Reconstructions were then carried out on the rest of the timing datasets using the optimised beta value; the same metrics were used to assess the quantification accuracy of the reconstructed images. RESULTS: A beta value of 1000 produced the highest CR and RAP (76% and 73%, 37 mm sphere) without overly accentuating the noise (BV) in the image. There was no statistically significant increase (p  15 min. For the 5-min acquisitions, there was a statistically significant decrease in RAP (28 mm sphere, p 

Original publication

DOI

10.1186/s13550-019-0512-y

Type

Journal article

Journal

EJNMMI Res

Publication Date

10/05/2019

Volume

9

Keywords

Bayesian penalised likelihood reconstruction, Image reconstruction, PET acquisition length, Quantitative PET, Yttrium-90 PET