A procedure for wall detection in [18F]FDG positron emission tomography heart studies

Quantitative positron emission tomography (PET) heart studies require the accurate localization of regions of interest (ROIs) on the myocardial wall (MW) and left ventricle (LV). The procedure is often inaccurate, especially when there is low tracer uptake. We implemented a data processing technique to improve the accuracy of the localization of ROIs on the MW and LV in fluorine-18 labelled deoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) PET heart studies. This...