Cross-calibration for quantitative functional imaging
AssigneeSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
InventorManojeet Bhattacharya
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Abstract
Cross-calibration is provided for functional imaging. In PET or SPECT, the inaccuracies from the dose and detector sensitivity may be reduced or removed in both activity concentration and uptake. By using measures from both the radiotracer for the patient and factory calibrated sources, the variability due to dose may be removed. In SPECT, a measurement of system specific sensitivity to a factory calibrated point source is used to improve the accuracy of uptake values, not just activity concentration.
Claims8
In a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for cross-calibration in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), the storage medium comprising instructions for:
- measuring a system specific sensitivity of a camera to a long-lived point source;
- estimating activity concentration in SPECT as a function of the system specific sensitivity;
- correcting an injected dose value as a function of the system specific sensitivity, wherein correcting comprises correcting the injected dose value for a radiotracer used in a patient with a cross-calibration value, the cross-calibration value being a function of a system specific sensitivity to a patient specific radiotracer calculated from the system specific sensitivity to the long-lived point source and a dose calibrator referenced radiotracer sensitivity;
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- calculating a specific uptake value from the activity concentration and the corrected injected dose value.
In a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for cross-calibration in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), the storage medium comprising instructions for:
- measuring a system specific sensitivity of a camera to a long-lived point source;
- estimating activity concentration in SPECT as a function of the system specific sensitivity;
- correcting an injected dose value as a function of the system specific sensitivity;
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- calculating a specific uptake value from the activity concentration and the corrected injected dose value, wherein calculating comprises dividing the activity concentration by the corrected injected dose value.
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