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Work is currently underway to develop an accreditation for quantitative\n                      <jats:sup>177<\/jats:sup>\n                      Lu SPECT\/CT. The aim of this study is to verify whether the positioning of the spheres within the phantom has an influence on the recovery and thus needs to be considered in SPECT harmonization. In addition, the effects of these recovery coefficients on a potential partial volume correction as well as absorbed-dose estimates are investigated.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using a low-dose CT of a SPECT\/CT acquisition, a computerized version of the NEMA body phantom was created using a semi-automatic threshold-based method. Based on the mass-density map, the detector orbit, and the sphere centers, realistic SPECT acquisitions of all possible 720 sphere configurations of both the PET and the SPECT versions of the NEMA Body Phantom were generated using Monte Carlo simulations. SPECT reconstructions with different numbers of updates were performed without (CASToR) and with resolution modeling (STIR). Recovery coefficients were calculated for all permutations, reconstruction methods, and phantoms, and their dependence on the sphere positioning was investigated. Finally, the simulation-based findings were validated using SPECT\/CT acquisitions of six different sphere configurations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our analysis shows that sphere positioning has a significant impact on the recovery for both of the reconstruction methods and the phantom type. Although resolution modeling resulted in significantly higher recovery, the relative variation in recovery within the 720 permutations was even larger. When examining the extreme values of the recovery, reconstructions without resolution modeling were influenced primarily by the sphere position, while with resolution modeling the volume of the two adjacent spheres had a larger influence. The SPECT measurements confirmed these observations, and the recovery curves showed good overall agreement with the simulated data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our study shows that sphere positioning has a significant impact on the recovery obtained in NEMA sphere phantom measurements and should therefore be considered in a future SPECT accreditation. 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