Implications of the partial volume effect correction on the spatial quantification of hypoxia based on FFMISO PET/CT data.

Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) Nov 2024

Description

This study evaluates the impact of partial volume effect (PVE) correction on [F]fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) PET images, focusing on the conversion of standardized uptake values (SUV) to partial oxygen pressure (pO) and the subsequent determination of hypoxic tumor volume (HTV).