PET/CT of the abdomen: Optimizing the patient breathing pattern

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 734-739

  Goerres, Gerhard W ^a   Burger, Cyrill ^a   Schwitter, Michael R ^a   Heidelberg, Thai Nia H ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Co registration; Image; Movement artifact; PET CT; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATION; HUMAN; INHALATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 0038419568     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1548-2     Document Type: Article

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