Respiratory gating of cardiac PET data in list-mode acquisition

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 584-588

  Livieratos, Lefteris ^a,b   Rajappan, Kim ^a   Stegger, Lars ^a,c   Schafers, Klaus ^a,c   Bailey, Dale L ^d   Camici, Paolo G ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

PET; Respiratory gating; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN 15;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING MECHANICS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONITOR; MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS;

ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646430600     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-0031-0     Document Type: Article

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