Respiratory gating for 3-dimensional PET of the thorax: Feasibility and initial results

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-219

  Boucher, Luc ^a   Rodrigue, Serge ^a   Lecomte, Roger ^a   Bénard, François ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

18F FDG; Motion correction; PET; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 1542399631     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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