医学物理学
医学
图像质量
标准化
剂量学
核医学
PET-CT
辐射剂量
放射科
正电子发射断层摄影术
计算机科学
计算机视觉
操作系统
图像(数学)
作者
Frederic H. Fahey,Alison Goodkind,Robert MacDougall,Leah Oberg,Sonja I. Ziniel,Richard Cappock,Michael J. Callahan,Neha Kwatra,S. Ted Treves,Stephan D. Voss
标识
DOI:10.2967/jnumed.116.182899
摘要
No consistent guidelines exist for the acquisition of a CT scan as part of pediatric PET/CT. Given that children may be more vulnerable to the effects of ionizing radiation, it is necessary to develop methods that provide diagnostic-quality imaging when needed, in the shortest time and with the lowest patient radiation exposure. This article describes the basics of CT dosimetry and PET/CT acquisition in children. We describe the variability in pediatric PET/CT techniques, based on a survey of 19 PET/CT pediatric institutions in North America. The results of the survey demonstrated that, although most institutions used automatic tube current modulation, there remained a large variation of practice, on the order of a factor of 2-3, across sites, pointing to the need for guidelines. We introduce the approach developed at our institution for using a multiseries PET/CT acquisition technique that combines diagnostic-quality CT in the essential portion of the field of view and a low-dose technique to image the remainder of the body. This approach leads to a reduction in radiation dose to the patient while combining the PET and the diagnostic CT into a single acquisition. The standardization of pediatric PET/CT provides an opportunity for a reduction in the radiation dose to these patients while maintaining an appropriate level of diagnostic image quality.
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