A Review on the Use of Imaging Biomarkers in Oncology Clinical Trials: Quality Assurance Strategies for Technical Validation

S Chauvie, LN Mazzoni, J O'Doherty - Tomography, 2023 - mdpi.com
Imaging biomarkers (IBs) have been proposed in medical literature that exploit images in a
quantitative way, going beyond the visual assessment by an imaging physician. These IBs …

EFOMP's protocol quality controls in PET/CT and PET/MR

R Matheoud, R Boellaard, L Pike, J Ptacek… - Physica medica, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents the protocol on Quality Controls in PET/CT and PET/MRI published
online in May 2022 by the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics …

A novel figure of merit to investigate 68Ga PET/CT image quality based on patient weight and lesion size using Q. Clear reconstruction algorithm: A phantom study

M Santoro, G Della Gala, G Paolani, F Zagni… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Q. Clear is a Bayesian penalised-likelihood algorithm that uses a β-value for
positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction (IR) …

Development of the quantitative PET prostate phantom (Q3P) for improved quality assurance of 18F‐PSMA PET imaging in metastatic prostate cancer

R Fedrigo, R Coope, A Rahmim, F Bénard… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Phantoms are commonly used to evaluate and compare the performance of
imaging systems given the known ground truth. Positron emission tomography (PET) …

Quality control performance evaluation of uMI550 digital PET-CT by utilising LYSO crystal natural radioactivity of 176Lu

MK Singh, V Dhull, M Vishwakarma - Radiography, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Quality Control (QC) of the Positron Emission Tomography-Computed
Tomography (PET-CT) system must be performed prior to the PET-CT acquisition to ensure …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of xSPECT, xSPECT bone and Broadquant from literature, clinical survey and innovative phantom study with task-based image quality …

C Hoog, E Verrecchia-Ramos, S Dejust, P Lalire… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective From patient and phantom studies, we aimed to highlight an original
implementation process and share a two-years experience clinical feedback on xSPECT …

Impact of patient's habitus on image quality and quantitative metrics in 18F-FDG PET/CT images

A Zorz, A D'Alessio, F Guida, RM Ramadan, E Richetta… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To study how the quantitative parameters of 18F-FDG PET imaging change with the
emission scan duration (ESD) and the body-mass-index (BMI) in phantom and patients on a …

Image quality and radiation dose assessment for the clinically applied 16-slice CT scanner using PMMA phantom and quality assurance phantom

TS Mekonin, TT Deressu - Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear …, 2023 - Springer
The goal of this study was to assess the radiation dose delivered accuracy and the
acceptable image quality parameter from the 16-slice Philips CT scanner in order to …

[HTML][HTML] A quality assurance program: a clear necessity in modern oncology care

P Van Houtte, D Van Gestel - Precision Cancer Medicine, 2023 - pcm.amegroups.org
To-day, patients expect to have access to optimal medical care. This implies a global
approach not only focusing on technical issues but also on the patient's individual …