Evaluation of a method based on synthetic data inserted into raw data prior to reconstruction for the assessment of PET scanners

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Table 5 Experimental and simulated RC values from BPL algorithm for each SBR and sphere size

	BPL
	Experimental series				Simulated series
	SBR 2:1	SBR 4:1	SBR 6:1	SBR 8:1	SBR 2:1	SBR 4:1	SBR 6:1	SBR 8:1
Sphere	Mean recovery coefficient: Average ± SD
13 mm	0.70 ± 0.04	0.73 ± 0.01	0.73 ± 0.01	0.70 ± 0.01	0.75 ± 0.04	0.73 ± 0.02	0.74 ± 0.01	0.74 ± 0.01
10 mm	0.69 ± 0.03	0.69 ± 0.01	0.71 ± 0.01	0.70 ± 0.01	0.73 ± 0.05	0.72 ± 0.02	0.74 ± 0.02	0.73 ± 0.01
8 mm	0.59 ± 0.05	0.54 ± 0.05	0.61 ± 0.02	0.59 ± 0.00	0.59 ± 0.03	0.61 ± 0.02	0.65 ± 0.03	0.65 ± 0.01
6 mm	0.44 ± 0.06	0.49 ± 0.02	0.51 ± 0.03	0.47 ± 0.08	0.44 ± 0.03	0.46 ± 0.03	0.51 ± 0.06	0.52 ± 0.02
5 mm	0.41 ± 0.09	0.34 ± 0.05	0.33 ± 0.04	0.35 ± 0.06	0.35 ± 0.07	0.28 ± 0.05	0.29 ± 0.03	0.30 ± 0.04
4 mm	0.40 ± 0.07	0.27 ± 0.03	0.31 ± 0.04	0.28 ± 0.05	0.40 ± 0.07	0.30 ± 0.05	0.27 ± 0.05	0.25 ± 0.04
Sphere	Maximum recovery coefficient: Average ± SD
13 mm	1.65 ± 0.30	1.65 ± 0.38	1.37 ± 0.03	1.39 ± 0.12	1.78 ± 0.13	1.62 ± 0.06	1.51 ± 0.05	1.43 ± 0.07
10 mm	1.57 ± 0.31	1.62 ± 0.20	1.46 ± 0.05	1.40 ± 0.09	1.63 ± 0.21	1.77 ± 0.18	1.78 ± 0.19	1.59 ± 0.13
8 mm	1.06 ± 0.23	1.06 ± 0.30	1.28 ± 0.10	1.55 ± 0.42	1.05 ± 0.17	1.18 ± 0.27	1.46 ± 0.18	1.47 ± 0.06
6 mm	0.64 ± 0.12	0.85 ± 0.06	1.06 ± 0.28	1.02 ± 0.18	0.75 ± 0.04	0.80 ± 0.06	1.03 ± 0.08	1.11 ± 0.11
5 mm	0.54 ± 0.15	0.50 ± 0.01	0.45 ± 0.08	0.51 ± 0.06	0.49 ± 0.09	0.40 ± 0.05	0.42 ± 0.01	0.46 ± 0.02
4 mm	0.49 ± 0.06	0.40 ± 0.04	0.40 ± 0.07	0.36 ± 0.08	0.47 ± 0.12	0.37 ± 0.06	0.33 ± 0.07	0.31 ± 0.05