Scan-time reduction using noise-matched images in 2- and 3-dimensional bismuth germanate PET/CT : clinical study in head and neck cancer

Abstract

We quantitatively and qualitatively investigated 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) imaging with scan-time reduction in 14 patients with 17 lesions, who had known or suspected head and neck cancer, using a bismuth germanate (BGO) crystal based PET/CT scanner with noise-matched images.