Standards for PET Image Acquisition and Quantitative Data Analysis

Quantitative ¹⁸F-FDG PET is increasingly being recognized as an important tool for diagnosis, determination of prognosis, and response monitoring in oncology. However, PET quantification with, for example, standardized uptake values (SUVs) is affected by many technical and physiologic factors. As a result, some of the variations in the literature on SUV-based patient outcomes are explained by differences in ¹⁸F-FDG PET...