Study shows ultra-low dose PET protocol eliminates need for CT, uses dose 50 times lower than current standard

Top row: CT- and LSO-TX-based attenuation maps with their respective percentage relative change (%RC) map. Bottom row: PET images reconstructed using CT- and LSO-TX-based attenuation maps with their respective %RC map. Credit: Image created by H Sari et al., Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland & Siemens Healthineers International AG, Zurich, Switzerland. A new ultra-low dose imaging method used with long axial field-of-view PET scanners can obtain images with a historically low radiopharmaceutical dose—more than 50 times lower than the standard effective dose. Furthermore, the technique can generate quantitative PET images Read More

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