The estimation of the internal radiation dose is a common requirement for novel radiotracers in nuclear medicine research.
PMOD offers a tailored workflow of dosimetry pre-processing steps using the base tool PBAS and the kinetic modeling tool PKIN. The resulting cumulated activities (residence times) form the input into standard programs, such as OLINDA/EXM or IDAC, as exemplified in the publication of Hjornevik et al.
- Matching of anatomical scans to the dosimetry series.
- Merging of static into a dynamic series, accounting for differences in decay correction.
- Definition of organ VOIs using multiple contouring approaches.
- Support of dynamic VOIs to track organs in follow-up acquisitions.
- Handling of positional time differences along the axial field-of-view in dynamic whole-body scans.
- Calculation of organ TACs from dynamic series.
- Calculation of organ cumulated activities with various integration and extrapolation algorithms.
- Standard organ naming for smooth interfacing to external programs.
- Export of cumulated activities in OLINDA/EXM and IDAC2.1 format.
PMOD is a software FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY (RUO) and must not be used for diagnosis or treatment of patients.