Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2018 Mar 28;46:229–243. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2018.03.007

Table 2.

Denoising performance of the proposed method on clinical and pre-clinical images. High SNR, RC; low kurtosis and low uptake change rate indicate superior performance.

PET/CT MRI/PET Preclinical

SNR Original 8.67 16.02 3.37
Proposed 23.79 39.70 7.54

RC Original 26.17 8.38 29.26
Proposed 49.70 14.13 41.08

Kurtosis Original 2.51 3.80 4.48
Proposed 2.21 2.72 2.33

Uptake Change Rate SUVmean 1.8% 5.11% 3.14%
SUVmax 3.47% 6.28% 3.09%