EJNMMI Research (Oct 2019)

Updating PET/CT performance standards and PET/CT interpretation criteria should go hand in hand

  • Ronald Boellaard,
  • Terez Sera,
  • Andres Kaalep,
  • Otto S. Hoekstra,
  • Sally F. Barrington,
  • Josée M. Zijlstra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-019-0565-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 2

Abstract

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Abstract This letter aims at explaining that adjusting the performance of PET/CT systems to a new standard also requires updating of interpretation criteria. Simply changing one aspect of the imaging procedure, i.e., PET/CT performance and image quality, and not adapting interpretation criteria will result in an increase of false positive (or negative) reads.