Correction of an image size difference between positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) improves image fusion of dedicated PET and CT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 515-519

  Vogel, Wouter V ^a   van Dalen, Jorn A ^a   Schinagl, Dominic A X ^b   Kaanders, Johannes H A M ^b   Huisman, HenkJan ^c   Corstens, Frans H M ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b Radiotherapy   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Positron emission tomography (PET); Positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET CT)

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; BEAM THERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746431511     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200606000-00007     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Schoder H, Yeung HW, Gonen M, Kraus D, Larson SM. Head and neck cancer: clinical usefulness and accuracy of PET/CT image fusion. Radiology 2004; 231:65-72.
2. Schwartz DL, Ford E, Rajendran J, Yueh B, Coltrera MD, Virgin J, et al. FDG-PET/CT imaging for preradiotherapy staging of head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005; 61:129-136.
3. Goerres GW, von Schulthess GK, Steinert HC. Why most PET of lung and head-and-neck cancer will be PET/CT. J Nucl Med 2004; 45 (Suppl 1):66S-71S.
4. Scarfone C, Lavely WC, Cmelak AJ, Delbeke D, Martin WH, Billheimer D, et al. Prospective feasibility trial of radiotherapy target definition for head and neck cancer using 3-dimensional PET and CT imaging. J Nucl Med 2004; 45:543-552.
5. Solberg TD, Agazaryan N, Goss BW, Dahlbom M, Lee SP. A feasibility study of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography targeting and simultaneous integrated boost for intensity-modulated radiosurgery and radiotherapy. J Neurosurg 2004; 101 (Suppl 3):381-389.
6. Vogel WV, Oyen WJ, Barentsz JO, Kaanders JH, Corstens FH. PET/CT: panacea, redundancy, or something in between? J Nucl Med 2004; 45 (Suppl 1):15S-24S.
7. Low DA, Mutic S, Dempsey JF, Gerber RL, Bosch WR, Perez CA, et al. Quantitative dosimetric verification of an IMRT planning and delivery system. Radiother Oncol 1998; 49:305-316.
8. Lavely WC, Scarfone C, Cevikalp H, Li R, Byrne DW, Cmelak AJ, et al. Phantom validation of coregistration of PET and CT for image-guided radiotherapy. Med Phys 2004; 31:1083-1092.
9. Hudson HM, Larkin RS. Accelerated image reconstruction using ordered subsets of projection data. IEEE Trans Med Imag 1994; 13:601-609.
10. Schroeder W. The visualization toolkit: an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics. 3rd ed. New York: Kitware Inc.; 2003.
11. Maintz JB, Viergever MA. A survey of medical image registration. Med Image Anal 1998; 2:1-36.