Organ movement reduction in PET/CT using dual-gated listmode acquisition

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-100

  Lang, Norbert ^a   Dawood, Mohammad ^a   Büther, Florian ^a   Schober, Otmar ^a   Schäfers, Michael ^a   Schäfers, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac gating; List mode; PET CT; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GATED IMAGING; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645666897     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0939-3889-00296     Document Type: Article

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