PET Quantification of Ultra Low Activity via Inhomogeneous Poisson Process Parameters Estimation Directly from Listmode Data

Metabolic imaging with PET/CT using \(^{18}\)F-Fludeoxyglucose (\(^{18}\)F-FDG) as well as other imaging biomarkers has achieved wide acceptance in oncology, cardiology and neurology not only because of the unique metabolic information generated by this modality, but also because of its ability to q...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-06
Main Authors: Deng, Zhenzhou, Zhao, Xin, Li, Anyi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological activity
Biomarkers
Cardiology
Computed tomography
Emission analysis
Emissions control
Error detection
Medical imaging
Metabolism
Neurology
Parameter estimation
Poisson density functions
Positron emission
Process parameters
Tomography
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Summary:Metabolic imaging with PET/CT using \(^{18}\)F-Fludeoxyglucose (\(^{18}\)F-FDG) as well as other imaging biomarkers has achieved wide acceptance in oncology, cardiology and neurology not only because of the unique metabolic information generated by this modality, but also because of its ability to quantify biological processes. However, PET quantification is affected by many technical and physiologic factors, and then recognized as an important problem for diagnosis, determination of prognosis, and response monitoring in oncology. In this work, we investigated the effect of reduced PET emission count statistics on the accuracy and precision of tracer quantification, and proposed Inhomogeneous Poisson Process Parameter Estimation (I3PE) method. In I3PE method, we modelled the coincidence event as Inhomogeneous Poisson Process, and estimate its parameter directly from the streaming listmode data. To evaluate the effectiveness, a experiment using \(^{18}\)F-FDG was implemented on LIGHTNING. The results not only demonstrate I3PE method, but also evaluated the minimal detectable activity of the using PET machine. According \(0.3\%\) mean error rate criterion, LIGHTNING can detect several nano-Curie, cooperated with I3PE method.
ISSN:2331-8422