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Table 2 Assessment of image quality

From: Impact of penalizing factor in a block-sequential regularized expectation maximization reconstruction algorithm for 18F-fluorocholine PET-CT regarding image quality and interpretation

 

Observers (median, range)

 
 

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

Overall

1.5 min, β 300

2 (1–3)

2 (2–4)

2 (1–3)

3 (2–4)

2 (1–2)

2

1.5 min, β 400

3 (1–3)

3 (2–4)

2.5 (2–5)

3 (2–4)

2 (2–3)

3

1.5 min, β 500

3 (3–4)

3 (3–4)

3 (3–4)

3 (2–4)

3 (2–4)

3

2.0 min, β 300

2 (1–3)

3.5 (2–4)

2 (1–5)

4 (3–4)

2 (2–3)

3

2.0 min, β 400

3.5 (1–4)

3 (3–4)

3 (2–4)

3 (2–4)

3 (2–4)

3

2.0 min, β 500

3 (3–4)

3 (2–4)

3 (3–4)

2.5 (2–3)

3.5 (2–4)

3

2.0 min, OSEM

3.5 (2–4)

3 (2–3)

2.5 (1–3)

2 (2)

2.5 (2–3)

2.5

  1. Assessment of image quality. Assessment of median (and range) image quality in 18F-FCH PET-CT examinations by five observers by grading images on a scale 1–5 (where 1 = unacceptable image quality and 5 = very high image quality) for the remaining ten patients for each image. The overall median image quality score for each series of reconstructions is also presented