Use of segmented CT transmission map to avoid metal artifacts in PET images by a PET-CT device

BMC Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mirzaei, Siroos ^a,b   Guerchaft, Michel ^c   Bonnier, Christopher ^a   Knoll, Peter ^b   Doat, Michel ^a   Braeutigam, Peter ^a  

^a Clinique Sainte Therese Luxembourg   (Luxembourg)

^b WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c BeNeLux   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ENERGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METAL IMPLANTATION; PHYSICIAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 23044486331     PISSN: 14712385     EISSN: 14712385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2385-5-3     Document Type: Article

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