Impact of Acquisition Geometry and Patient Habitus on Lesion Detectability in Whole-Body FDG-PET: A Channelized Hotelling Observer Study
Fakhri G, Holdsworth C, Badawi R, Santos P, Moore S, Van den Abbeele A, Kijewski M. Impact of Acquisition Geometry and Patient Habitus on Lesion Detectability in Whole-Body FDG-PET: A Channelized Hotelling Observer Study. 2002, 3: 1402-1405. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2002.1239583.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBed positionChannelized Hotelling observer studyFDG-PET studiesAttenuation mapAcquisition modeMarginal detectionFDG-PETLesion detectionWhole-body FDG-PETHotelling observerScaling 2DTypical sizePatient sizeHours post-injectionPatient habitusAnatomical backgroundWhole bodyLesion sizeObservational studyPatientsLesionsLesion siteModePost-injectionAcquisition geometry