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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Radiophysics

Background:

  • Accurate scatter correction (SC) is crucial for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.
  • Single-scatter simulation (SSS) is the current standard for SC but can fail with patient motion in PET/CT.
  • Alternative SC methods are needed to address limitations of SSS.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To detail, test, and compare an energy-based scatter estimation (EBS) method against SSS.
  • To evaluate EBS performance in phantom and patient studies for PET/CT imaging.

Main Methods:

  • Developed EBS for list-mode data on a Biograph Vision-600 PET/CT scanner.
  • Utilized digitized 2D energy histograms and an iterative expectation maximization approach.
  • Validated using NEMA NU2-2018, slab, NU 2-1994, cardiac, and torso phantoms, alongside FDG PET scans from seven lung cancer patients.

Main Results:

  • EBS and SSS produced visually similar images, with EBS showing better uniformity in a torso phantom.
  • EBS demonstrated a 2% scatter residual versus 3% for SSS, with slightly higher background variability.
  • Phantom studies showed comparable contrast recovery (98.2% EBS vs. 99.6% SSS), and patient lesion SUV values correlated strongly (R²=0.9973) between EBS and SSS.

Conclusions:

  • EBS provides clinically relevant results comparable to SSS for Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) in focal lesions.
  • EBS offers slight improvements in some scatter metrics in phantoms, despite a minor degradation in image variability.
  • EBS is a viable alternative to SSS for oncological whole-body PET/CT, especially in cases of SSS failure.