Artifacts caused by contrast agents and patient movement in cardiac PET-CT

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Buther F ^a   Schafers K P ^a   Stegger, L ^a   Range, F ^a   Fischbach, R ^a   Wichter, T ^a   Schafers M ^a   Schober, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE; IOPROMIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN;

ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEART; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750440750     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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