At the end of segment assignment and VOI editing the VOIs list contains all defined structures of interest. It is recommended saving them separately using the button illustrated below.
There are different variants for calculating statistics.
Partial-Volume Correction (PVC)
Optionally, the PVC can be enabled.
The LMA GTM method uses information from the segmentation process. Assuming that the inner-most part of the segments is least affected by the partial-volume effect, it uses only a fraction of the segment data for the segment average calculation. The percentage can be set by the Voxels to be kept parameter. The algorithm uses the Geometric Transfer Matrix (GTM) approach for spillover compensation at a fine segmentation level which is not shown to the user. The corrected signal for all user-assigned segments is then constructed from the corrected signals contained in the segments.
The resolution of the imaging system is crucial for the GTM method. There is a list-selection for pre-defined scanners in the lower part of the PVC area, and new scanners can easily be added. Default is the generic Rodent scanner with isotropic resolution of 1.5mm FWHM.
With PVC enabled, PSEG will provide both the corrected and uncorrected uptake curves on the Statistics page.