Patent ID: 7851763

Claim:
A method for improving clinical data quality in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), said method comprising the steps of: (a) injecting a patient with a calibration dose of a radiopharmaceutical, said calibration dose being a fractionated portion of a patient dose of the radiopharmaceutical; (b) pre-scanning the patient; (c) determining a trues rate (T pat ); (d) determining a scattered events rate (S pat ); (e) determining a randoms rate (R pat ); (f) determining a singles rate s pat meas ; (g) determining an optimal dose of the radiopharmaceutical using T pat , S pat , R pat and s pat meas ; (h) determining a remainder dose as a difference between said optimal dose and said calibration dose; and (i) injecting said patient with said remainder dose.