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Table 1 Reconstruction parameters for the clinical reconstructions assessed on the two clinical PET/CT scanners at UCLH. All PFs are Gaussian, except for the GE axial PF (a “standard” axial filter is a triangle filter with the ratio 1:4:1

From: Optimisation of the air fraction correction for lung PET/CT: addressing resolution mismatch

Scanner

Reconstruction

Iterations

Subsets

Voxel size [\(\hbox {mm}^3\)]

PF FWHM [mm]

D710

VPFX (“EARL1”)

2

24

2.73 × 2.73 × 3.27

6.4 / “standard”

D710

VPFX

4

24

2.73 × 2.73 × 3.27

6.4 / “standard”

D710

QCFX

2.73 × 2.73 × 3.27

0.0

Vision

TOF

4

5

3.30 × 3.30 × 3.00

4.0

Vision

TOF+PSF

4

5

1.65 × 1.65 × 3.00

0.0

Vision

TOF (“EARL1”)

4

5

3.30 × 3.30 × 3.00

6.0