2020
SNMMI Procedure Standard/EANM Practice Guideline on Pediatric 18F-FDG PET/CT for Oncology 1.0
Vali R, Alessio A, Balza R, Borgwardt L, Bar-Sever Z, Czachowski M, Jehanno N, Kurch L, Pandit-Taskar N, Parisi M, Piccardo A, Seghers V, Shulkin B, Zucchetta P, Lim R. SNMMI Procedure Standard/EANM Practice Guideline on Pediatric 18F-FDG PET/CT for Oncology 1.0. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2020, 62: 99-110. PMID: 33334912, PMCID: PMC8679588, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.254110.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEuropean Association of Nuclear MedicineF-FDG PET/CTF-FDGComputerized tomographyTechnology subsequent to publicationEvidence-based recommendationsLevel of trainingNuclear medicineLevel of evidenceDiagnostic nuclear medicine imagingPractice of medicineComplexity of human conditionsMedicine careStandard of careScience of nuclear medicineLegal standard of careCourse of actionMedicine practiceConsensus processPractice guidelinesSociety of Nuclear MedicinePediatric oncologyMedical professionalsClinician guidelinesApplications of nuclear medicine
2014
Dose reduction in pediatric abdominal CT: use of iterative reconstruction techniques across different CT platforms
Khawaja R, Singh S, Otrakji A, Padole A, Lim R, Nimkin K, Westra S, Kalra M, Gee M. Dose reduction in pediatric abdominal CT: use of iterative reconstruction techniques across different CT platforms. Pediatric Radiology 2014, 45: 1046-1055. PMID: 25427434, DOI: 10.1007/s00247-014-3235-2.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2013
Simultaneous 99mTc‐MDP/123I‐MIBG tumor imaging using SPECT‐CT: Phantom and constructed patient studies
Rakvongthai Y, Fakhri G, Lim R, Bonab A, Ouyang J. Simultaneous 99mTc‐MDP/123I‐MIBG tumor imaging using SPECT‐CT: Phantom and constructed patient studies. Medical Physics 2013, 40: 102506. PMID: 24089927, PMCID: PMC3785531, DOI: 10.1118/1.4820977.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsScatter correctionDual-radionuclideContrast recoveryPhantom studyAnthropomorphic torso phantomPatient studiesTumor uptakeTumor imagingSPECT projectionsTorso phantomMonte-CarloPhantom dataPhantomIterative reconstructionOSEMProjection dataDR dataIncrease patient throughputNoise realizationsSPECT-CTImage reconstructionClinical studiesTumorTumor projectionPoisson noise
2011
Impact of Time-of-Flight PET on Whole-Body Oncologic Studies: A Human Observer Lesion Detection and Localization Study
Surti S, Scheuermann J, Fakhri G, Daube-Witherspoon M, Lim R, Abi-Hatem N, Moussallem E, Benard F, Mankoff D, Karp J. Impact of Time-of-Flight PET on Whole-Body Oncologic Studies: A Human Observer Lesion Detection and Localization Study. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2011, 52: 712-719. PMID: 21498523, PMCID: PMC3104282, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.086678.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBody SizeFluorodeoxyglucose F18HumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLiver NeoplasmsLung NeoplasmsPositron-Emission TomographyROC CurveTime FactorsWhole Body ImagingConceptsLocalization receiver operating characteristicsTime-of-flight PETLong scan timesArea under the LROC curveScan timeFunction of scan timePatient sizeTime-of-flight (TOFLROC curveLow-uptake lesionsTOF imagesTOF kernelLesion detection taskTOF-PETWhole-body oncologyLesion detection performanceScanner fieldPhantom studyPatient body mass indexProbability of correct localizationLesion detectionSphere dataBody mass indexLarger patientsReceiver operating characteristic