Boellaard Ronald, Sera Terez, Kaalep Andres, Hoekstra Otto S, Barrington Sally F, Zijlstra Josée M
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, VUMC, de Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
EJNMMI Res. 2019 Oct 29;9(1):95. doi: 10.1186/s13550-019-0565-y.
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.
本信旨在说明,将PET/CT系统的性能调整到新的标准也需要更新解读标准。仅仅改变成像程序的一个方面,即PET/CT性能和图像质量,而不调整解读标准,将导致假阳性(或假阴性)读数增加。