Reduced acquisition times in whole body bone scintigraphy using a noise-reducing Pixon®-algorithm-a qualitative evaluation study.

Background: Reducing scan-time while maintaining sufficient image quality is a common issue in nuclear medicine diagnostics. This matter can be addressed by different post-processing methods such as Pixon® image processing. The aim of the present study was to evaluate if a commercially available noise-reducing Pixon-algorithm applied on whole body bone scintigraphy acquired with half the standard scan-time could provide the same clinical information as full scan-time non-processed images.