Sentence examples for pet interpretations from inspiring English sources

In addition to reducing the PET imaging time per patient from 45 to 60 min with a conventional dedicated PET scanner to 15 30 min, the hybrid PET/CT scanners also reduce the number of equivocal PET interpretations.

Because of the effort expended in recent decades to develop the SPM software package [33], this approach has been established as a standard analysis method for fMRI and PET interpretation.

The prostate cancer working group 3 consensus criteria state that there is a lack of standards in NaF PET interpretation for reporting disease presence or changes posttreatment and that NaF should be approached as a new biomarker subjected to independent validation [11].

All the images were double-read by two nuclear physicians with more than 6 years experience in PET interpretation, and the discrepancies were resolved by discussion.

We found the need for a standardized 18F-FDG PET interpretation in order to optimize the diagnostic performance of this imaging technique.

Our results showed that F-FDG FDG PET is a highly sensitive method for the detection of recurrence of HNSCC, thus providing important prognostic information for survival outcomes, as a positive PET interpretation was associated with an eight-fold increase in the relative risk of patient death.

Furthermore, authors were able to identify small lymph node metastases with only marginal to moderate tracer uptake lying in close proximity to pelvic vessels or intestinal structures and they suggest to use contrast agent whenever possible in daily practice, because of the substantial benefits it brings to ease and reliability of PET interpretation [ 23].

In addition to the standardization of FDG-PET interpretation, the IHP has formulated guidelines for integration of FDG-PET and CT results (IWC + PET criteria, see Table 1) [99], [99].

US images and mammograms were reviewed at the time of CT, MRI, or FDG-PET interpretation.

There are multiple potential challenges to FDG-PET interpretation, particularly in PMBL patients.

Tumor size had to be a minimum of 1 cm to minimize partial volume averaging effects in FDG-PET interpretation.