Table 3.
Dosimetry Toolkit® + OLINDA/EXM® V1.0 | PLANET® Dose | |
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Calibration procedure |
SPECT/CT acquisitions Calibration factor (counts.s−1.MBq−1) |
SPECT/CT acquisitions Calibration factor (Bq.Count−1) |
Clinical imaging | 4 SPECT/CT at 4 h, 24 h, 72 h and 192 h after injection—60 projections of 45 s | |
Reconstruction | « Preparation for Dosimetry Toolkit» 6 iterations 10 subsets-AC, SC, RR, Gaussian post filter 0.11 cm | |
Registration |
« Preparation for Dosimetry Toolkit» application Automatic rigid registration using CT images (Full FOV) |
Organ-based rigid registration using CT images |
Segmentation and propagation |
Manual segmentation using the first CT image Rigid propagation (constant volumes) Segmentation adjusted by translation or rotation for other images |
Manual segmentation using the first CT image Rigid propagation (constant volumes) No adjustment for other images |
TIA fitting | Mono-exponential | Mono-exponential |
Absorbed dose calculation |
OLINDA/EXM® V1.0 Patient-adapted organ masses |
Local Deposition Method (LDM) Dose Kernel (DK) approach with/without density correction |
AC, attenuation correction; SC, scatter correction, RR, recovery resolution; FOV, field of view; CT, computed tomography; TIA, time integrated activity