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  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Radiology

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  • Data-driven gated (DDG) PET is clinically accepted but often uses free-breathing CT, leading to registration and attenuation correction (AC) challenges.
  • DDG PET typically preserves only 35%-50% of data, requiring longer scan times to reduce noise.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop a full-counts, phase-matched (FCPM) DDG PET/CT method using low-dose cine CT.
  • Improve DDG PET/CT registration, reduce image noise, and avoid increased acquisition times.

Main Methods:

  • Created DDG CT for end-inspiration (EI), average (AVG), and end-expiration (EE) phases from cine CT (1.35 mSv).
  • Matched CT phases with corresponding DDG PET data and used cine CT for misregistration correction.
  • Registered EI and AVG PET to EE PET using deformable image registration, creating FCPM DDG PET/CT with all PET data at EE phase.

Main Results:

  • FCPM DDG PET/CT showed a 1.49 ± 0.28 SUVmax increase vs. static PET/CT.
  • Average SUVmax decreased by 10.8% (EI) and 9.1% (EE) in FCPM compared to EI/EE DDG PET/CT.
  • FCPM DDG PET/CT noise levels were statistically equivalent to static PET/CT, unlike EI, AVG, and EE DDG PET/CT.

Conclusions:

  • A novel FCPM DDG PET/CT method utilizes 100% of collected PET data.
  • FCPM DDG PET/CT achieves image noise comparable to static PET.
  • FCPM DDG PET/CT demonstrates slight SUVmax decreases but maintains diagnostic utility.