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Protocol for standardization of FDG-
PET provides recommendations for:
• Minimizing physiological or biological effects by strict patient
preparation
• Procedures to ensure accurate FDG dose and administration
• Matching of PET study statistics by prescribing FDG dosage as function
of patient weight, type of scanner, acquisition mode and scan duration
• Matching of image resolution by specifying image reconstruction
settings and providing activity concentration recovery coefficients
specifications
• Standardization of data analysis by prescribing obligatory and preferred
region of interest strategies and SUV measures and corrections
• Multi-center QC procedures for PET and PET/CT scanners
• During start up phase: central data analysis using standard data
analysis and QC software tools (freely available for participating
centers)