In patients we trust: reliability of self-reported weight and height in nuclear medicine patients

KS Blum, N Büsch, T Beyer, I Rausch… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of the study was to assess the reliability of the self-reported weight and height of
nuclear medicine patients in view of recommendations for weight-dependent tracer …

Patient's weight: a neglected cause of variability in SUV measurements? A survey from an EARL accredited PET centre in 513 patients

C Lasnon, B Houdu, E Kammerer, T Salomon… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Dear Sir, 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is being
increasingly used for assessment of early effects of conventional chemotherapy and/or …

Deep learning‐based body weight from scout images can be an alternative to actual body weight in CT radiation dose management

S Ichikawa, H Itadani, H Sugimori - Journal of Applied Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Accurate body weight measurement is essential to promote computed tomography
(CT) dose optimization; however, body weight cannot always be measured prior to CT …

Estimating Body Weight From Measurements From Different Single-Slice Computed Tomography Levels: An Evaluation of Total Cross-Sectional Body Area …

S Ichikawa, H Sugimori - Journal of Computer Assisted …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between the estimated body weight
obtained from 2 easy-to-perform methods and the actual body weight at different computed …

Computerized method for automatic evaluation of lean body mass from PET/CT: comparison with predictive equations

T Chan - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
CT has become an established method for calculating body composition, but it requires data
from the whole body, which are not typically obtained in routine PET/CT examinations. A …

Impact of obesity on nuclear medicine imaging

MA Ghanem, NA Kazim… - Journal of nuclear …, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
Obesity, with its alarming increase among adults and children, represents a significant
health problem with serious medical, social, psychologic, and economic reverberations. The …

Prevalence, challenges, and solutions for 18F-FDG PET studies of obese patients: a technologist's perspective

CD Botkin, MM Osman - Journal of nuclear medicine technology, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States; hence, it is frequently
encountered in patients undergoing 18F-FDG PET studies. The purpose of the current study …

The Effect of New Formulas for Lean Body Mass on Lean-Body-Mass–Normalized SUV in Oncologic 18F-FDG PET/CT

T Halsne, EG Müller, AE Spiten… - Journal of nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
Because of better precision and intercompatibility, the use of lean body mass (LBM) as a
mass estimate in the calculation of SUV (SUL) has become more common in research and …

How inaccurate is weight as a metric for patient size? Comparing patient weight to effective diameter for size-specific dose estimation

TS Cook, SC Chadalavada… - Medical Imaging 2013 …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
One of the biggest challenges in dose monitoring is customization of CT dose estimates to
the patient. Patient size remains a highly significant variable. One metric that has previously …

Does body mass index outperform body weight as a surrogate parameter in the calculation of size-specific dose estimates in adult body CT?

J Boos, RS Lanzman, P Heusch, J Aissa… - The British Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To assess the value of body mass index (BMI) in comparison with body weight as
a surrogate parameter for the calculation of size-specific dose estimates (SSDEs) in …