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Table 1 Acquisition and reconstruction settings of clinical 68Ga PET/CT imaging for prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumours. One hospital per row is presented

From: Multicentre quantitative 68Ga PET/CT performance harmonisation

Site

PET/CT system

Reconstruction settings

Prostate cancer

Neuroendocrine tumours

Minutes per bed position

Injected activity

Minutes per bed position

Injected activity

A

Philips Gemini TOF 64

BLOB-OS-TF 4 mm

3i33ss

Pelvis: 4

Body: 3

1.5 MBq/kg

(range 50ā€“250 MBq)

<ā€‰90 kg: 2.5

>ā€‰90 kg: 3.5

2.6 MBq/kg

(range 100ā€“160 MBq)

B

Philips Gemini TF and XL

Astonish iterative reconstruction

4

2.0 MBq/kg

4

2.6 MBq/kg

C

Siemens mCT Flow

TrueX + TOF

2i21ss

Gaussian 5mm

1.5 mm/s CTM

2.0 MBq/kg

2.5

100 MBq

D

Philips Ingenuity TF

BLOB-OS-TF 4 mm

3i33ss

2 mm smooth B filter

NA

4

<ā€‰90 kg: 150 MBq

>ā€‰90 kg: 200 MBq

E

Siemens mCT TrueV

OSEM3D, TOF + PSF

2i21ss

Gaussian 5 mm

4

1.5 MBq/kg

(min 80 MBq)

NA

F

Philips Gemini TOF

BLOB-OS-TF 4 mm

3i33ss

Pelvis: 3

Body: 2

100 MBq

2.5

100 MBq

G

Siemens mCT

TrueX + TOF

4i21ss

Gaussian 5 mm

3

1.5 MBq/kg

3

1.5 MBq/kg

H

Siemens mCT40 and mCT128

TrueX + TOF

3i21ss

Gaussian 3 mm

<ā€‰70 kg:

1.5 MBq/kg: 3

1.13 MBq/ml: 4

0.9 MBq/ml: 5

>ā€‰70 kg:

1.5 MBq/kg: 4

1.2 MBq/ml: 5

1 MBq/ml: 6

1.5 MBq/kg

<ā€‰70 kg:

1.5 MBq/kg: 3

1.13 MBq/ml: 4

0.9 MBq/ml: 5

>ā€‰70 kg:

1.5 MBq/kg: 4

1.2 MBq/ml: 5

1 MBq/ml: 6

1.5 MBq/kg

  1. NA = not applicable, i = iteration, ss = subsets, TOF = time-of-flight, PSF = point-spread-function, CTM = continuous table motion