PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shelley N. Acuff
AU  - Dustin Osborne
TI  - Collection of Real-Time Data with a Modular Detector System to Assess Injection Quality
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.118.224725
DP  - 2019 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 255--257
VI  - 47
IP  - 3
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/47/3/255.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/47/3/255.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2019 Sep 01; 47
AB  - A modular radiation detector device that was developed by Lucerno Dynamics, LLC, collects data during the entire uptake period of a molecular imaging study and then retrospectively assesses these data for signs of dose infiltration. The objective of this study was to test the feasibility of using this device for real-time, rather than retrospective, assessment of the injected dose. Methods: For 20 patients undergoing a clinical PET scan, we manually collected real-time counts from the device for 60 s and then compared the resultant time–activity curves with those generated from automated 60-min counts collected by the device. Results: The R2 value calculated for the averages across the 2 curves was 0.93 (93%), meaning the 2 curves matched statistically. Conclusion: The external detector device may be used to ascertain, within only 60 s, whether an injection is sufficient.