Truncated LM files, CT failed acquisitions, Gating issues










From: Gimenez, Emilio [mailto:Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2019 8:42 AM
To: Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com>; 'BERR@VIRGINIA. EDU' <berr@virginia.edu>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>
Cc: Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Farber, Brian <brian.farber@bruker.com>
Subject: RE: summary of call

Dear all,
Yesterday and today we did the first revision of the data after our meeting of las Tuesday 4th  of June.  
I would like to update the priority points that we  commented in the Cesar´s report.
  • Top priority Truncated LM and Images discrepancies:
    • Checks Soumen 3 studies reconstructions.
      • The reconstruction with automatic mode get the header information correctly.
      • We found a way to include the information of the header in advance reconstruction, to do an optimal process, we need to update the software.
    • Show Soumen how to check the duration of an LM file
      • I have copied in the desktop 2 software to check the LM file header, this is the route: C:\Users\Albira\Desktop\Open LM files
      • I left in the folder the instructions for each tool and I attached in this email.
    • Show Soumen how the Supervisor gives the right result on the Q factor
      • I processed again the study from 3rd of June and I passed correctly the supervisor.
      • I did with the 2 Workstations, and the result was the same. And the image is the same(We got a small differences in the 4 decimal 111.111X)
    • Soumen to tell us what the remaining files are to give top priority in processing.
      • Yesterday and today, I open all the studies from 8th to 16th of May with name “Jiange He” studies and I check the LM header. Now, all of these studies the LM is correct and the times, isotopes and decays are correct.
      • I attached a spread sheet(Studies 8th to 14th of May) with all the information, in the folder “Jiange He Studies” you have the list of the studies checked.
    • Check configuration of the software and version on both Workstations to see if that could explain differences
      • During these yesterday, we did several reconstructions where we can see that the result with the 2 WS are the same:
        • in the spread sheet(Studies 8th to 14th of May) the folder “QC Studies” you can see the image of the phantom QC reconstructed with 2 computers and the Quantification result, it is the same.
        • in the spread sheet(Studies 8th to 14th of May) the folder “Jiange He Studies”, you can see the image with an animal´s reconstruction, where the results with 2 computers image´s  and the Quantification result is the same.
        • My conclusion is that both workstations are working correctly.
Yesterday,  we had a call where I presented all these images, data and software’s tools to Soumen. From now my nexts steps are two:
  • Check the rest of the studies for weibin shi animals , I will try to checked tomorrow.
  • And prepare a software update that help us to fix the following issues:
    • Do the automatic fusion without any inconvenience.
    • Carry on multiple reconstructions of advance mode with the Zr89 algorithm in one process.

I need to coordinate the second point with Soumen and Gus-Carlos to do not have any interference.
I will keep you reported.

Regards,
Emilio Gimenez 


Day  Study name  Isot Selected Algorit Selected Recon Aut Header Aut Recon Q ZR89 Header ZR89 Time Acq(Sec) LM Correct 
9-May M:\05-09-2019\cage1-mouse1-NO1-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F18 Yes Correct No 900 YES
9-May M:\05-09-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F18 Yes Correct No 900 YES
9-May M:\05-09-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F18 Yes Correct No 900 YES
9-May M:\05-09-2019\cage1-mouse4-LRC5-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F18 Yes Correct No 900 YES
9-May M:\05-09-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F18 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage1-mouse1-LNO1-Jianghe-junli-24h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F19 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jianghe-junli-24h(2) Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F20 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jianghe-junli-24hrs Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F21 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jianghe-junli-24h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F22 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jianghe-junli-24h(2) Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F23 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage1-mouse4-LRC5-Jianghe-junli-24h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F24 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage2-mouse1-RC7-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F25 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage2-mouse1-RC7-Jianghe-junli-24h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F26 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage2-mouse2-NO8-Jianghe-junli- Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F27 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage2-mouse2-NO8-Jianghe-junli-24h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F28 Yes Correct No 900 YES
10-May M:\05-10-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jianghe-junli-24h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F29 Yes Correct No 900 YES
11-May M:\05-11-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jianghe-junli-48h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F30 Yes Correct No 900 YES
11-May M:\05-11-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jianghe-junli-48h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F31 Yes Correct No 900 YES
11-May M:\05-11-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jianghe-junli-48h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F32 Yes Correct No 900 YES
12-May M:\05-12-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jiang He-72h(2) Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F33 Yes Correct No 1200 YES
12-May M:\05-12-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL8-Jiang He-72h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F34 Yes Correct No 1200 YES
12-May M:\05-12-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jiang He-72h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F35 Yes Correct No 1200 YES
12-May M:\05-12-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jiang He-72h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F36 Yes Correct No 1200 YES
13-May M:\05-13-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jiang He-96h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F37 Yes Correct No 1800 YES
13-May M:\05-13-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jiang He-96h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F38 Yes Correct No 1800 YES
13-May M:\05-13-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jiang He-96h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F39 Yes Correct No 1800 YES
14-May M:\05-14-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jiang He-120h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F40 Yes Correct No 1800 YES
14-May M:\05-14-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jiang He-120h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F41 Yes Correct No 1800 YES
14-May M:\05-14-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jiang He-120h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F42 Yes Correct No 1800 YES
15-May M:\05-15-2019\cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jiang He-144h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F43 Yes Correct No 2700 YES
15-May M:\05-15-2019\cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jiang He-144h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F44 Yes Correct No 2700 YES
15-May M:\05-15-2019\cage2-mouse3-RL8-Jiang He-144h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F45 Yes Correct No 2700 YES
16-May M:\05-16-2019\Cage1-mouse2-RL2-Jiang He-168h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F46 Yes Correct No 3600 YES
16-May M:\05-16-2019\Cage1-mouse3-RC4-Jiang He-168h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F47 Yes Correct No 3600 YES
16-May M:\05-16-2019\Cage2-mouse2-RC8-Jiang He-168h Zr89-Y5SFL Cal 48 32x32 05 F48 Yes Correct No 3600 YES





-----Original Message-----
From: Paul, Soumen (sp8pc)
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 1:43 PM
To: He, Jiang (jh6qv) <jh6qv@virginia.edu>; Berr, Stuart S (sb4b) <sb4b@virginia.edu>
Cc: Li, Jun (jl3my) <jl3my@virginia.edu>
Subject: RE: service on PET/SPECT/CT scanner

Dr.He,
 There was software issue with the Reconstructor (Image reconstruction). We have corrected the issue last week and I mentioned to Jun Li.
In this week the we are revising all the dataset before I hand over to Jun. The Scanner is working well , no hardware issue. Next week we will have all the dataset including Dr.Weibin Shi's FDG study. I apologize for the delay and the inconvenience ! Finally we want to make sure that we all obtain meaningful data.

Thanks for your time and patience!

Soumen

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 12:28 PM
To: Berr, Stuart S (sb4b) <sb4b@virginia.edu>; Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: service on PET/SPECT/CT scanner

Hi, Stuart and Soumen:

How is the scanner now? We are planning imaging studies soon. The longitudinal imaging study on diabetes mice are due 1-2 weeks. we also plan for tumor imaging too.

Thanks!

Jiang He, PhD

From: Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) [mailto:sp8pc@virginia.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 2:59 PM
To: Gimenez, Emilio <Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com>; Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com>; 'BERR@VIRGINIA. EDU' <berr@virginia.edu>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>
Subject: Re: summary of call

The top priority : Jiange He  and weibin shi animal (9th may-16th may). The animals are labelled  during that period.

Soumen

From: Paul, Soumen (sp8pc)
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 2:55:07 PM
To: Gimenez, Emilio; Molinos, Cesar; 'BERR@VIRGINIA. EDU'; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a); Correcher, Carlos; Pastor, Gustavo; Sasser, Todd
Subject: Re: summary of call

Hi All,
 I reconstructed few animals using Automatic reconstuction and the image.hdr file has all the information, but the algorithm is not right. I just tried to check the difference bewteen Automatic vs Advanced. Initially I used advanced reconstructor as I need to select the 89Zr profile, which is not possible  in Automatic .

The options: To fix the img.hdr problem in Advanced reconstructor OR to change the algorithm for different istope in Automatic
Thanks,
Soumen

From: Gimenez, Emilio <Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 1:05:18 PM
To: Molinos, Cesar; 'BERR@VIRGINIA. EDU'; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a); Paul, Soumen (sp8pc); Correcher, Carlos; Pastor, Gustavo; Sasser, Todd
Subject: RE: summary of call

Thanks for report Cesar,
Please leave the Team viewer on in the Workstation 2 for tomorrow.
Thanks,


Emilio Gimenez 

  


From: Gimenez, Emilio [mailto:Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com] On Behalf Of NMI, Support
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 1:03 PM
To: Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>; NMI, Support <Support.NMI@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Berr, Stuart S (sb4b) <sb4b@virginia.edu>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>
Subject: RE: SPECT QC passed but PET quantification failed

Hello Soumen,
Please, could be possible a bit earlier for example 9:30H EST time?
Thanks,


Emilio Gimenez
Service Engineer NMI
Nuclear Molecular Imaging
Bruker BioSpin Preclinical Imaging División

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De: Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>
Enviado el: martes, 4 de junio de 2019 18:38
Para: NMI, Support <Support.NMI@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Berr, Stuart S (sb4b) <sb4b@virginia.edu>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>
Asunto: RE: SPECT QC passed but PET quantification failed

Hi Emilio ,
Thanks much for reprocessed the LM file.

Tomorrow at 10: 30 (EST) am is okay for you to have discussion regarding the LM file and the albira supervisor ?

Thanks,
Soumen

From: Gimenez, Emilio [mailto:Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com] On Behalf Of NMI, Support
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 12:23 PM
To: NMI, Support <Support.NMI@bruker.com>; Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Berr, Stuart S (sb4b) <sb4b@virginia.edu>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>
Subject: RE: SPECT QC passed but PET quantification failed

Hello Soumen,
This is the result with the study that you did yesterday. I re-processed the LM, reconstructed the data , and the supervisor passed the test.
Tomorrow I will try with the study that you did 22nd of May..

Regards,


Emilio Gimenez 

From: Molinos, Cesar [mailto:Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 12:54 PM
To: 'BERR@VIRGINIA. EDU' <berr@virginia.edu>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>; Gimenez, Emilio <Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>
Subject: summary of call

Dear All,

Thanks for taking part in the call today. We think it was very useful. Stuart, Bijoy and Soumen: we apologize for the inconveniences you have had and we are confident we will overcome all the issues.

This is just a quick summary of the action points:

Top priority: Truncated LM files and image discrepancies
-          Check Soumen’s reconstructions against ours to find out why they differ in the cases where the LM files had already been completed successfully. See Soumen’s email attached capturing 3 cases where this effect happens. Emilio to check tomorrow.
-          Show Soumen how to check the duration of an LM file to make sure it has all the calibrated data from a .dat file. Emilio to show Soumen tomorrow. We will produce a short guide, see below.
-          Show Soumen how the Supervisor gives the right result on the Q factor after having reprocessed the file. Emilio to show Soumen tomorrow.
-          Soumen to tell us what the remaining files are to give top priority in processing.
-          Check configuration of the software and version on both Workstations to see if that could explain differences. Emilio run the reconstructions systematically on Worksation 1 without problems. Emilio or Gustavo to check ASAP.

Less urgent:
-          Capture in short report issues, solutions and state of the system. Cesar by Friday 21st June (include short guide on LM file duration check).
-          Error saving image in user chosen folder. Soumen described. We need to reproduce to know what is going on. Emilio to try to reproduce when possible.
-          Fusion issue. This should be solved by a new Software version. Gustavo to say when this will be available and then UVa to give us availability to carry out. Gustavo recommends to be able to use point source to be absolute sure the software update was successful.
-          CT failed acquisitions. Test points (not sure that is the right word) were introduced in the software to characterize the problem and therefore be able to tackle it. We will continue to monitor as we need to know what exactly causes the problem.
-          Dynamic + Gating. Possible cause suggested. We need to verify if correct. Cesar checking, give feedback by end of June.

Kind regards,

Cesar.

Cesar Molinos Solsona
Product Specialist NMI
Nuclear Molecular Imaging
Bruker BioSpin Preclinical Imaging Division



From: Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) [mailto:sp8pc@virginia.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2019 8:23 PM
To: Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Berr, Stuart S (sb4b) <sb4b@virginia.edu>
Cc: Gimenez, Emilio <Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>
Subject: RE: UVA Dual Dynamic Gated


Hi Cesar and Emilio ,
  I tried to do the reconstruction with the corrected LM files in order to check if I can see the information (dose, animal wt, date and time of scan) which was missing before, but after the advanced reconstruction the information are still missing, also it generates the WRONG image file.

I checked in three animals, two is 89zr study and the other is 18FDG

Cage1 mouse3-RC4 (05-09-2019): Advnaced recon, 89ZR 0.5, 24 iterations
Cage2-mouse3-RL8-72hrs (05-12-2019): Advnaced recon, 89ZR 0.5, 24 iterations
Weibinshi FDG study (05-16-2019)- I used Advanced reconst, Algorithm: Cal48 3R32X32 0.5, 24 iterations

Emilio: Could you please let me know how you have performed the Reconstructions ?As I can see all the information in the hdr file which YOU have reconstructed.

Thanks much,
Soumen


From: Molinos, Cesar [mailto:Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 10:58 AM
To: Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>
Cc: Gimenez, Emilio <Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>
Subject: RE: UVA Dual Dynamic Gated


Hello Bijoy,

After speaking with Todd and the team here, I think the best thing would be to organize a call so we answer your queries quickly, align on what the issues are, the priorities and fixes.

Shall we have the call Monday o Tuesday during your morning? Please suggest.

Kind regards,

Cesar.



From: Bijoy Kundu <bkk5a@virginia.edu>
Sent: 31 May 2019 14:40
To: Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com>
Cc: Gimenez, Emilio <Emilio.Gimenez@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Paul, Soumen (sp8pc) <sp8pc@virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: UVA Dual Dynamic Gated


Hi Cesar et al. I have been working with Soumen regarding the issues he has been having. It is indeed confusing with the lm files especially with the Zr data sets.. One question is that how do you know if a lm file is correct or incorrect? How do you correct that as that is determined by your acquisition parameters, isotope used, injected dose, fov selected etc and it seems for all the mentioned parameters for the same acquisition time, injected dose and animal weight, there is a big difference in lm file sizes, not all though. This problem seems only for Zr89 and not for FDG.

We made sure to include the correct branching fraction (~23%). The energy window should not be different compared to FDG. Is a new energy calibration needed for every isotope used? I thought it was not needed as all are 511 kev gammas as opposed to spect. Of course the recon and quantification depends upon the q curve which soumen established and using for his recons.

The key question is that how do you know that a lm file is incorrect and how can you correct that?

1) The lm file problem exists only for Zr89 and
2) the header files go missing in some recon files and that is happening with FDG as well.

Please suggest. Thanks.
Bijoy

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 6:55 AM Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com> wrote:
Dear Bijoy,

We have been discussing what the issue on the gating+dynamic topic could be. After this, we have come up with some checks we need to do remotely taking one the already acquired studies.

As a separate topic, Emilio is now supporting Soumen on the reconstruction issues by a remote connection. We think that by Monday this task will be completed and then we will proceed to check the gating+dynamic study. We hope that then we can reach a conclusion and start putting a solution in place.

Kind regards,

Cesar.



From: Sasser, Todd
Sent: 24 May 2019 13:23
To: Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>
Subject: RE: UVA Dual Dynamic Gated


Hi Cesar,

Please just be aware that there is a separate underlying recon issue we uncovered the day after we evaluated this. You know better than me, but I think that might need to be cleared up before more test scans for the issue below can be trusted.

Thanks,

Bruker Preclinical Imaging
Todd Sasser, PhD



From: Molinos, Cesar
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 7:19 AM
To: Sasser, Todd <todd.sasser@bruker.com>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>
Subject: RE: UVA Dual Dynamic Gated


Hi Todd,

This needs to be investigated further. I did look into it, saw what Bijoy reported but could not find out the reason for the problem in the dataset Bijoy pointed to. I thought Bijoy could still use the dataset with the ROIs defined on the longer subsequent frames of the dynamic. In any case, it is clear this issue needs to be explained.

This coming week I will have time to look again into the issue and I will get Carlos and Gustavo involved. I would like to start by progressively increase the frame duration to see if at some point the gated frames start capturing the activity peak.

It would be good if the discrepancy is systematic or occasional. Also, please let us know the most recent dataset where we can check.

Kind regards,

Cesar.




From: Sasser, Todd
Sent: 22 May 2019 15:15
To: Molinos, Cesar <Cesar.Molinos@bruker.com>; Kundu, Bijoy (bkk5a) <bkk5a@virginia.edu>; Pastor, Gustavo <Gustavo.Pastor@bruker.com>; Correcher, Carlos <Carlos.Correcher@bruker.com>
Subject: UVA Dual Dynamic Gated

Hi All,

Bijoy and I were looking at their Dynamic Gated data. I think that others have looked at the data, but it’s clear in the TAC profile that profile for the non-gated dynamic data (top) and gated dynamic data (bottom) do not agree. (Ignore the per frame gate peaks in the gated dynamic data – the overall profile looks the same when individual gates are profiled). Note that the gated dynamic data does not include the clear initial peak, or at least is relatively far less when compared/scaled to the TAC at later times. Also, it’s not shown here, but the TAC activity range for the non-gated dynamic profile is about 10X that of the gated dynamic data. Bijoy was speculating that the cause might be an error in the decay correction scheme that might be applied and looking at the file details, PMOD is indicating that the gated dynamic data is not decay corrected. I assume that we don’t decay corrected gated only data in the same way that we would standard static or dynamic scans because the data is a composite average for each frame over a period correct? Therefore I am also wondering if the individual gates for each frame do not have decay corrections that represent the frame they are at?  





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