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Table 4 Measured data: RMSE in the reconstructed VOI with respect to the GT emission convolved with \(h_{PVC}\)

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

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Reconstruction

GT VOI mean [kBq/ml]

VOI RMSE [kBq/ml]

VOI RMSE [\(\%\)]

D710

VPFX 2i (“EARL1”)

10.1 ± 2.5

0.847 ± 0.009

8.4 ± 0.04

D710

VPFX 4i

10.1 ± 2.5

0.829 ± 0.003

8.2 ± 0.01

D710

QCFX

10.1 ± 2.6

0.907 ± 0.004

9.1 ± 0.02

Vision

TOF

6.9 ± 2.1

0.435 ± 0.007

6.4 ± 0.11

Vision

TOF+PSF

7.3 ± 2.9

0.667 ± 0.003

9.2 ± 0.02

Vision

TOF (“EARL1”)

6.9 ± 2.0

0.385 ± 0.003

5.5 ± 0.05

  1. Uncertainty on RMSE is one standard deviation of 100 voxel sub-sampling realisations, see “Appendix 3”. Uncertainty on GT VOI mean is one standard deviation over all voxels in the original VOI