Fixation devices for whole-body F-FDG PET/CT: Patient perspectives and technical aspects

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-147

  Brechtel, Klaus ^a   Heners, Henriette ^a   Mueller, Marc ^a   Aschoff, Philip ^a   Eschmann, Susanne M ^a   Bares, Roland ^b   Claussen, Claus D ^b   Pfannenberg, Anna C ^b  

^a Departments of Diagnostic Radiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Fixation devices; Image registration; Oncology PET; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY REGIONS; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PAIN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SAMPLE SIZE; VACUUM DEVICE; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; METHYLCELLULOSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RESPIRATION; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VACUUM;

EID: 33846017318     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328013eb09     Document Type: Article

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