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Table 4 Noise level of a large VOI (, 3.0 cm) placed in the liver and the SNR with all lesion sizes averaged are presenting for TOF-OSEM (3 iterations, 16 subsets, post-filter 5.0 mm and PSF) and BSREM with β = 750 (including TOF and PSF). Reference values measured in a healthy liver

From: Noise reduction using a Bayesian penalized-likelihood reconstruction algorithm on a time-of-flight PET-CT scanner

 

Noise (14.137 ml)

SNR (lesion size averaged)

Time (min)a

OSEM

β750

OSEM

β750

2.5

0.443

0.228

20.256

41.710

5.0

0.318

0.156

15.088

29.092

10

0.217

0.109

10.243

19.448

  1. aTotal of nine range of times per bed position