Fig. 8

Representative coronal ⁶⁸Ga-DOTA images of patient no. 7 reconstructed with Hadassah and GE OSEM (1.5 min/bp) and Q.Clear with 1.5, 1.0 and 0.5 min/bp. Tumor detectability, contrast and contrast using Q.Clear 1.5 min/bp (β = 1500) and 1.0 min/bp (β = 1700) was better than those using OSEM with 1.5 min/bp, but in using Q.Clear with 0.5 min/bp (β = 3000) some lesions were missed (blue arrow for instance). Sternum lesion SUV_max uptake value (g/ml) obtained with the different reconstruction methods is indicated by black arrows. The gray scale next to the images represents the corresponding SUV scale in g/ml