Impact of Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction on quantitative and qualitative aspects for pulmonary nodule detection in digital 2-[18F]FDG-PET/CT

Abstract To evaluate the impact of block sequential regularized expectation maximization (BSREM) reconstruction on quantitative and qualitative aspects of 2-[18F]FDG-avid pulmonary nodules compared to conventional ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) reconstruction method. Ninety-one patie...

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Main Authors: Niklas Lohaus, Florian Enderlin, Stephan Skawran, Alexander Maurer, Ahmad M. A. Abukwaik, Daniel Franzen, Martin W. Huellner, Michael Messerli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09904-4