Creation of a Probabilistic Atlas of Normal Cerebral Uptake of 18F-FDG in PET/MRI.

With 18F-FDG PET, we have few atlases of normality allowing the realization of objective quantitative analyses. An atlas of normality is a probabilistic atlas of normal FDG uptake from a representative set of brain PET images of healthy subjects. This type of atlas is essential for intra- and inter-individual comparisons. Accurate quantitative analysis of brain 18F-FDG PET images acquired on a hybrid PET system has been shown to require an institutional normal database for statistical analyzes (Akdemir et al., JNM 2017 and Della Rosa et al Neuroinformatics, 2014).