Updating PET/CT performance standards and PET/CT interpretation criteria should go hand in hand

This letter aims at explaining that adjusting the performance of PET/CT systems to a new standard also requires updating of interpretation criteria. Simply changing one aspect of the imaging procedure, i.e., PET/CT performance and image quality, and not adapting interpretation criteria will result i...

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Autores principales: Boellaard, Ronald, Sera, Terez, Kaalep, Andres, Hoekstra, Otto S., Barrington, Sally F., Zijlstra, Josée M.
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664529
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13550-019-0565-y
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author Boellaard, Ronald
Sera, Terez
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Hoekstra, Otto S.
Barrington, Sally F.
Zijlstra, Josée M.
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description This letter aims at explaining that adjusting the performance of PET/CT systems to a new standard also requires updating of interpretation criteria. Simply changing one aspect of the imaging procedure, i.e., PET/CT performance and image quality, and not adapting interpretation criteria will result in an increase of false positive (or negative) reads.
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spelling pubmed-68206312019-11-14 Updating PET/CT performance standards and PET/CT interpretation criteria should go hand in hand Boellaard, Ronald Sera, Terez Kaalep, Andres Hoekstra, Otto S. Barrington, Sally F. Zijlstra, Josée M. EJNMMI Res Letter to the Editor This letter aims at explaining that adjusting the performance of PET/CT systems to a new standard also requires updating of interpretation criteria. Simply changing one aspect of the imaging procedure, i.e., PET/CT performance and image quality, and not adapting interpretation criteria will result in an increase of false positive (or negative) reads. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6820631/ /pubmed/31664529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13550-019-0565-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Updating PET/CT performance standards and PET/CT interpretation criteria should go hand in hand
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title_full_unstemmed Updating PET/CT performance standards and PET/CT interpretation criteria should go hand in hand
title_short Updating PET/CT performance standards and PET/CT interpretation criteria should go hand in hand
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820631/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13550-019-0565-y
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