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Table 1. Yttrium-90 (⁹⁰Y) imaging protocol using first generation positron emission tomography (PET)/CT.

PET/CT scannerGeneral technique	Siemens Biograph LSO, Erlangen, GermanyImaging performed 6 h post-⁹⁰Y injection; patient positioned supine with arms elevated; PET acquired in one bed position centred over the liver for 40 min
PET gantry information	Detector material: lutetium oxyorthosilicate; crystal dimension 6.45×6.45×25 mm; crystals per detector block 64; 144 detector blocks; 4 photomultiplier tubes per block; detector ring diameter 824 mm; 384 detectors per ring; 24 detector rings; total 9216 detectors
PET reconstruction parameters	PET matrix 128×128×47; attenuation weighted ordered subsets expectation maximisation iterative reconstruction; two iterations and eight subsets
CT parameters	Single-slice CT; 120 kVp; 90 mAs; field of view 50 cm; slice interval 3 mm

Table 1. Yttrium-90 (90Y) imaging protocol using first generation positron emission tomography (PET)/CT.