Table 9 Comparison of image quality parameters[3, 18,19,20,21,22]
From: SAFIR-I: first NEMA NU 4-2008-based performance characterization
RC | SOR [\(\%\)] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
System | RM | %STD\(_{\text {uniform}}\) | \(1\,\hbox {mm}\) | \(2\,\hbox {mm}\) | \(3\,\hbox {mm}\) | \(4\,\hbox {mm}\) | \(5\,\hbox {mm}\) | Water-filled cyl. | Air-filled cyl. |
SAFIR-I | 3D MLEM | 4.8 | 0.04 | 0.28 | 0.54 | 0.84 | 1.08 | 22.0 | 21.8 |
SAFIR p.s. | 3D MLEM | 3.0 | 0.13\(^d\) | 0.29 | 0.49 | 0.65 | 0.88 | 17.3 | 18.5 |
Mosaic | 3D RAMLA\(^a\) | 5.1 | 0.22 | 0.55 | 0.74 | 0.87 | 0.98 | 6.3 | 2.7 |
MuPET | FBP3DRP\(^b\) | 6.5 | 0.19 | 0.58\(^e\) | 0.78\(^e\) | 0.89\(^e\) | 0.95 | 9.0 | 5.0 |
Inveon | FORE\(^c\) + 2DFBP | 5.3 | 0.17 | 0.48 | 0.72 | 0.84 | 0.93 | 1.7 | -0.6 |
Bruker | 3D MLEM\(^b\) | 4.5 | 0.14 | 0.64 | 0.91 | 0.95 | 0.94 | 6.2 | 4.6 |